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Raymond J. de Souza: Darkness descends over Egypt, echoing Passover's ninth plague

Due to the energy crisis caused by the war, shops and restaurants have been ordered to close early, and streetlights have been dimmed

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Due to the energy crisis caused by the American-Israeli war against Iran, shops and restaurants have been ordered to close early, and streetlights have been dimmed. Cairo, usually throbbing with commerce and conviviality into the early hours is quiet and dark.

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There was darkness in ancient Egypt. It was the ninth of the ten plagues recorded in the Torah. The Lord God instructed Moses to call down darkness for three days upon Pharaoh and his countrymen, a darkness so thick, so deep, so complete that they could feel it. Pharaoh began to bend, ready to let Moses and his people go.

The definitive exodus from Egypt would await the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn. Passover. In most languages — but not English — the word for the Jewish Passover and Christian Easter is the same: Pâques, Pascua, Pasqua, Pascha. The Passover of........

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