Here's a way you can explain to your Rangers the story of Passover: About 3000 yrs ago the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians under the rule of Pharaoh Ramses II. In the book of Exodus, (in the Bible), Moses, a simple Jewish shepherd, was told by God to go to Pharaoh and DEMAND that the Jews be freed. Moses warned Pharaoh that God would send severe punishments to the Egyptian people if the Demand was ignored. Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go and each time he refused God unleashed a plague on the people of Egypt: 1st plague : God turned the water in the Nile river to blood. (Drop red food coloring in a jar of water) 2: God sent frogs to overtake Egypt. (Use green paper little paper balls (or have your Rangers make them) and scatter them all over a table. 3: Lice: God infested all of the people & animals with lice. (use a hole punch to make small white dots out of paper. Scotch tape them and place them on your face -or a volunteer's face). 4: Flies -God sent wild beasts -biting flies (tape Pepper or small black dots on your arm) 5: Blight: God sent disease to all of the Egyptian livestock. (put stuffed animals upside down on table) 6. Boils: God infected the Egyptian with blisters and boils -(tape red dots on another volunteer) 7. Hail - God hammered the country with hail (drop ice cubes into a pan) 8. Locusts -(make small brown wads of paper and have someone drop them on the tables in the class) 9. Darkness - (turn out the lights in your classroom - or tell everyone to cover their eyes for a minute) 10.Death - The death angel killed the first born in every household that did not have the lamb's blood smeared on the door posts. (cut 2 long strips of red paper or ribbon and tape on a doorway). Pharaoh was unconvinced and refused to free the Jewish slaves until the last plague. When the Israelites finally left their homes there wasn't enough time to bake bred, so they packed raw dough to take on the journey. As they fled through the desert the would bake the bread in the hot sun which turned it to hard crackers. The Jews commemorate this by eating matzoth (unleavened bread). Cdr Jen 8. Locust _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org
