Main Passage: Exodus 8:1-15

Purpose - Freedom to worship God - Exodus 8:1

Plague 2 - Frogs - verses Exodus 8:5-7

Origin story and meaning of Heqet

Heqet’s name was associated with the word “frog” or “egg”. Both of those words reinforce her role as a fertility goddess. Other scholars have also stated the word “heqa” means “scepter” or “ruler”.

There is not much that is known about her origin story other than she is the consort of Khnum, the Divine Potter who molds the bodies of children out of clay. Heqet was also associated with the sky goddess Hathor. In that depiction, she is seen as the mother of Horus the elder.

A number of Egyptian myths state that Heqet was the wife of Khnum. The two deities partnered to create human beings. Khnum would mold the human bodies with clay (from the Nile) at his potter’s wheel, while Heqet will use her magic (heka) and then breathe life (the ka) into the molded body before it is put in the mother’s womb.

In the famous Queen Hatshepsut (https://www.worldhistoryedu.com/hatshepsut-greatest-accomplishments/) Mortuary Temple at Deir el Bahri, both Heqet and Khnum appear standing beside the infant Egyptian queen.

Playing Games - verses- Exodus 8:8

Prayer - verses Exodus 8:12-13

Pay Day - Exodus 8:14

Pride - Exodus 8:15 - Pharaoh hardened his heart.