Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

therefore I command you to do this thing.'" Deuteronomy 24:18.
Note 2, page 132: The plagues the Lord sent on Egypt
humiliated their gods and cast contempt on their idol worship. The
Egyptians regarded the Nile River with religious reverence and
offered sacrifices to it as a god. The first plague was directed against
it. Exodus 7:19.
The second plague brought frogs. Exodus 8:6. Heqa, one of the
Egyptian deities, was a frog-headed goddess, and frogs were
considered sacred. The Apis bull was dedicated to Ptah, the cow was
sacred to Hathor, and the ram represented Khemu and Amen. The
disease that came on the Egyptians' cattle and animals afflicted their
sacred animals. Exodus 9:3.
The ninth plague assailed one of their greatest gods, the sun
god Ra. Exodus 10:21. The tenth plague (Exodus 12:29) was
directed against Pharaoh as a god, who was considered to be Horus,
the son of Osiris.
Note 3, page 154: When the Israelites worshiped the golden
calf, they professed to be worshiping God. But it was like the
Egyptians' worship of Osiris--by means of an image. The Egyptians'
worship of Apis was immoral, and the Israelites' worship of the
golden calf apparently was the same. Moses wrote that the Israelites
"sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Exodus 32:6. The
Hebrew word for "play" denotes singing and dancing, which among
the Egyptians was sensual and indecent. The Hebrew word for
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