Ten Plagues Hit Egypt in Sequence. The Last One Came at Midnight.

Pharaoh said no to letting Israel go. So the Nile turned to blood. Then frogs everywhere. Gnats, flies, dead livestock, boils, hail, locusts, three days of pitch darkness.

Nine times Pharaoh hardened his heart. On the tenth night, the firstborn of every Egyptian household died — except the homes where lamb's blood was painted on the doorposts.

By sunrise Pharaoh was shoving Israel out the door with gold in their hands. The plague that broke him was the one he started — he'd ordered Hebrew baby boys killed eighty years earlier.