Ancient Stories: Ipuwer Papyrus
The Ipuwer Papyrus, known as The Admonitions of Ipuwer, The Papyrus Ipuwer and The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage, is a literary text dated to the Middle Kingdome of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE). The author is known as Ipuwer, who may have been a scribe belonging to a Priest Class that served Pharaoh. Fragments are missing, so the translation is also missing some words.
The Ipuwer Papyrus documents world changing cataclysmic events that match the Exodus story in the Judeo Christian Biblical accounts, events in the Kolbrin Bible, ancient stories in Worlds in Collison by I. Velikovsky, and numerous other stories from around the world.
Comparison of Ipuwer Papyrus and the Biblical Exodus Story:
- There’s blood everywhere… Lo the river is blood.
- …all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood (Exodus 7:20).
- …one…thirsts for water.
- And the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river (Exodus 7:24).
- Lo, trees are felled, branches stripped.
- …and the hail brake every tree of the field (Exodus 9:25).
- . Lo, grain is lacking on all sides.
- . …and the flax and the barley was smitten (Exodus 9:31).
- Birds find neither fruit nor herbs.
- …they (locusts) did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left (Exodus 10:15).
- Groaning is throughout the land, mingled with laments.
- …and there was a great cry in Egypt (Exodus 12:30).
- Lo, many dead are buried in the river, the stream is the grave, the tomb became stream, and He who puts his brother in the ground is everywhere.
- For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn (Numbers 33:4).
- All is ruin!
- Egypt is destroyed (Exodus 10:7).
Ipuwer Papyrus Translation: No Commentary
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