More than most of the other pagan nations around Israel, Egypt was involved in occult beliefs and practices, for example, the magicians at the court of Pharaoh at the time of Moses. But such practices would utterly fail them in a time of God's judgment as any nation that becomes committed to such blasphemies.

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KJV Defenders Study Bible, by Dr. Henry Morris, Ph.D.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Language: English
DEF 10 ISBN 0-529-10444-x
DEF 10-1 ISBN 0-529-10445-8