parsha bit: Bo

[cellio]

Why did the Holy One, Blessed Be He, send a plague of darkness? Because there were wrongdoers among Israel who did not obey God and were deserving of death. God said: let not the Egyptians say "we have been struck down by plagues and so have they"; rather, he sent darkness so the Egyptians could not see the Jews burying their dead. (Exodus Rabbah 14:3)

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[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Though then you have a whole bunch of people all burying their dead in the dark. Wouldn't everybody bring lanterns to the cemetery so they could see enough not to fall into the open graves? Wouldn't the lanterns be obvious to the Egyptians?