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The plague of frogs from the book of Exodus sounds pretty harmless compared to the other plagues (boils, fire, hail, etc). Is there some reason why Egyptians or Israelites would have been particularly afraid of frogs?

by /u/ZnSaucier in /r/AskHistorians

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