The Biblical Plagues: Duel On the Nile There is barely another story in the Bible as deeply engrained in Mankind’s collective memory as the description of the Ten Plagues. Within a few months, Egypt was devastated by a series of disasters that God, Yahweh, had conjured up to manifest his omnipotence. Even in comparison to major worldwide disasters in the 21st century, the Biblical Plagues easily surpass anything we have ever witnessed. Contamination, devastation, death, and disease – each of the Plagues reached unprecedented proportions, and each new disaster struck the people along the Nile harder than the previous one.