People
She is an iconic older sister who kept a good beat.
Who is Miriam?
The first plague involved this, which turned red.
What is Water/The Nile?
This mountain is where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
These laws, given by God at Sinai, are central to Jewish tradition.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be thrown into this river.
What is the Nile River?
He was Moses’ brother and served as his spokesman to Pharaoh.
Who is Aaron?
The ninth plague was this, which lasted for three days.
What is Darkness?
Moses encountered God in this object that burned but was not consumed.
What is the burning bush?
God brought water for the Israelites from this object when Moses struck it.
What is a rock?
Pharaoh repeatedly refused this request from Moses: to do this with the Israelites.
What is “let my people go”?
She found Moses in the Nile and raised him as an Egyptian prince, even though she knew he was Hebrew.
Who is Batya, Pharaoh’s daughter?
This final plague caused Pharaoh to tell the Israelites to leave.
What is the Death of the Firstborn?
Moses led the Israelites through this sea, which parted to let them escape Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
God instructed the Israelites to mark their doors with this during the final plague.
What is blood (of a lamb)?
After finally letting the Israelites go, Pharaoh did this, leading to the parting of the sea.
What is chase (or pursue) them?
The wine-drinking visitor for whom a cup is set at every Seder table.
Who is Elijah the prophet?
A key idea behind the Ten Plagues is that each one challenged the power of one of these Egyptian deities.
What is an Egyptian god?
God chose Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt despite this speech difficulty Moses claimed to have.
What is a speech impediment (or being slow of speech)?
God promised this land to the Israelites as part of His covenant with their ancestors.
What is the Promised Land (or the Land of Canaan, or Israel)?
Pharaoh’s magicians were able to replicate some early plagues, like turning water into this.
What is blood?
Midianite woman, Moses's wife who bore him two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.
Who is Zipporah.
These two people hid from the decree that led to the plagues.
Who are Shifra and Puah?
This woman nursed and raised Moses, and was even paid by Pharaoh’s daughter to do so.
Who is Yocheved, Moses's biological mother.
God commanded Moses to remove his shoes because this ground was described as this.
What is holy ground?
Pharaoh considered himself to be this, which made him unwilling to submit to God’s demands.
What is a god (or divine)?