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   ocr: An even more basic issue was at stake: God's personal credibility Was he just one more tribal god, like the ones the Egyptians worshiped? The plagues were, in effect, God's open warfare against the false gods of Egypt. He declared as much: "I will pring judgment on all the gods of Egypt" (12:12). Some scholars see each plague as a targeted attack against a specific Egyptian idol. Thus, the plague on the Nile River countered the gyptians river god; the plague of flies, the sacred fly; the plague of Jarkness, the sun god Ra; and the plague on livestock, the sacred bull. The plagues began as irri ...