![]() ![]() Sacred animals might not be intentionally killed and even their involuntary slaughter was not unfrequently punished with death. (1) Frogs were sacred animals to the Egyptians, who regarded them as symbols of procreative power, and associated them especially with the goddess Heka (a wife of Kneph, or up), whom they represented as frog-headed. They entered the royal palace no less than the peasant’s cottage they penetrated to the inner chambers they leaped upon the couches and beds they polluted the baking utensils, and defiled the water and the food. We may take it, therefore, as certain that the second infliction upon Egypt was an innumerable multitude of frogs, which came up out of the river, and infested the cities, the houses, the sleeping apartments, the beds, the ovens, and the kneading troughs. All the ancient versions agree in the interpretation and the only rival rendering-“crocodiles”-is too absurd to be argued against. (1-4) It is generally allowed that the second plague was one of frogs. Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersVIII. ![]()
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