עֶשֶׂר מַכּוֹת
One small toy for each plague, the kind that comes out of a chocolate egg in pieces and clicks together. Each one stands on a 40 mm stage with the plague's name sunk into the top and its number under it. They print on a Bambu A1 mini with no supports, one plate per plague, and go together with pegs, slots and little pins.
Where the commentators disagree about what a plague was, there's a toy for each reading: arov as wild animals or as hornets and mosquitoes, and choshech as darkness over the land or, with the Torah Temimah, a film over the eye.
10 plagues · 12 toys · a set of ten is 66 pieces and about 79 g of PLA.
1 דָּם Blood 
2 צְפַרְדֵּעַ Frogs 
3 כִּנִּים Lice 
4 2 views עָרוֹב Arov, the mixture 
5 דֶּבֶר Pestilence 
6 שְׁחִין Boils 
7 בָּרָד Hail 
8 אַרְבֶּה Locusts 
9 2 views חֹשֶׁךְ Darkness 
10 מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת Firstborn Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom. Slide to see how the pieces go together.
PLA, 0.4 nozzle, 0.2 mm layers, 15% infill, no supports. Every part is already turned onto its print face. Open the plate 3MF and slice: it's laid out for the A1 mini's 180 mm bed.
The 3MF already has a colour on each part, so with an AMS you match them to your spools. Without one, print each colour as its own plate from the STLs. The few two-colour details (the blood on the doorposts, the cow's patches, the lit window, the lens) are separate STLs. They sit 0.6 mm proud, so you can paint them instead.
Pins are Ø3 mm in Ø3.3 holes, and slots have 0.15 mm each side: a firm push fit on a tuned A1 mini. If one is tight, roll the pin on sandpaper. If it's loose, add a drop of glue. Don't rescale a kit, or the pins stop fitting their holes.
Times and grams are rough estimates for Bambu default speeds. The slicer has the final word. For the hail, print the hailstone halves in clear or translucent PLA/PETG and the flame shows through.
Moshe lifts the staff over the Nile and the water turns to blood. A red river drops into a channel across the stage, two dead fish float on it, and the staff stands at the bank.
Stage · The Nile (red) · Fish · Fish · Moshe’s staff
“The frog came up”: the verse says one frog, and Rashi brings the midrash that it was a single frog, and when they struck it, it split into swarms. A big frog on a lily pad, with a little one already split off.
Lily-pad stage · Legs · Frog · Little frog
Aharon strikes the dust and it becomes lice. The magicians cannot copy it and admit “it is the finger of God.” A louse big enough to see, under a magnifying glass, on a dusty stage.
Dusty stage · Legs · Louse · Magnifying glass
Wild animals · R’ Yehuda in Shemot Rabbah 11:3; Rashi
Arov, a mixture: Rashi lists lions, wolves, leopards, snakes and scorpions. A lion, a bear and a wolf stand in sockets, and a scorpion scuttles in front.
Stage · Lion · Bear · Wolf · Scorpion
Hornets and mosquitoes · R’ Nechemia in Shemot Rabbah 11:3
R’ Nechemia says arov was “kinds of hornets and mosquitoes” (מִינֵי צְרָעִין וְיַתּוּשִׁין). The midrash leans to R’ Yehuda’s wild animals: the verse says not one was left, because Pharaoh would have profited from their hides, and hornets have no hides. A hornet built in layers, with three mosquitoes hovering on stalks.
Stage · Legs & sting · Head & thorax · Striped abdomen · Wings · Stalk · Stalk · Stalk · Mosquito · Mosquito · Mosquito
The plague on the livestock, which killed the cattle of Egypt and did not touch a single animal belonging to Israel. A cow built the Kinder way: body, four legs that plug in, a head on a pin.
Field stage · Leg · Leg · Leg · Leg · Cow · Head · Pin
Moshe takes handfuls of soot from a kiln and throws it at the sky, and it settles as boils on man and beast. A kiln with a glowing fire door, and the cloud of soot rising off the chimney.
Stage · Kiln · Fire door · Soot cloud · Pin
Hail with fire flashing inside it: Rashi calls it a miracle inside a miracle, fire and water making peace to do God’s will. The big hailstone closes around a flame; print it in clear and the fire shows through.
Stage · Hailstone, front · Hailstone, back · Fire inside · Hailstone · Hailstone · Hailstone · Pin ×3
Locusts so thick they covered the eye of the land and ate everything the hail left. A locust in three layers, legs, body and wings, on a ring of eaten wheat stubble.
Wheat-stubble stage · Legs & antennae · Locust · Wings
Darkness over the land · The plain reading; Rashi
A darkness you could feel, “but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.” A black Egyptian house under a black cloud, and an Israelite house with a lit window and an oil lamp burning.
Stage · Egyptian house · Darkness · Israelite house · Roof · Oil lamp · Flame · Pin ×2
A film over the eye · Torah Temimah, Shemot 10:21
The midrash says the darkness could be felt and was “the thickness of a dinar”, and a three-day night seems to break the promise that day and night will not cease. So the Torah Temimah suggests, “had I not been afraid to invent something very new”, that the darkness was not in the air but in their eyes: a film (תְּבַלּוּל) stretched over the pupil, which you could feel with your hand and was as thick as a dinar. An eye with its iris and pupil, the film that presses on over them and pulls off, and a dinar for the thickness.
Stage · Eye · Iris · Pupil · The film (תבלול) · Dinar
Told through what saved Israel that night: the blood of the Pesach lamb on the two doorposts and the lintel, put there with a bundle of hyssop dipped in the basin, and a door shut until morning.
Stage · Doorpost · Doorpost · Lintel · Door · Lamb · Basin · Hyssop · Pin ×4