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The Ten Plagues and the Hebrews

Question

Did any of the Ten Plagues affect the Hebrews?

Answer

Ibn Ezra (on Ex. 7:24) says that many of the plagues affected the Hebrews as well as the Egyptians; they were explicitly spared only from Arov, Dever, Barad, and Choshech.