EXODUS 9
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that
they may worship me.
2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
3 the hand of the Lord will strike with a deadly pestilence your
livestock in the field: the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the
flocks.
4 But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of
Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that
belongs to the Israelites.' "
5 The Lord set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the Lord will do this
thing in the land."
6 And on the next day the Lord did so; all the livestock of the
Egyptians died, but of the livestock of the Israelites not one died.
7 Pharaoh inquired and found that not one of the livestock of the
Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he would not
let the people go.
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot
from the kiln, and let Moses throw it in the air in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 It shall become fine dust all over the land of Egypt, and shall
cause festering boils on humans and animals throughout the whole land of
Egypt."
10 So they took soot from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and
Moses threw it in the air, and it caused festering boils on humans and animals.
11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils,
for the boils afflicted the magicians as well as all the Egyptians.
12 But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not
listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning
and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, "Thus says the Lord,
the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
14 For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and
upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is
no one like me in all the earth.
15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and
your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the
earth.
16 But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power, and to
make my name resound through all the earth.
17 You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not
let them go.
18 Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that
has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
19 Send, therefore, and have your livestock and everything that you
have in the open field brought to a secure place; every human or animal that is
in the open field and is not brought under shelter will die when the hail comes
down upon them.' "
20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried
their slaves and livestock off to a secure place.
21 Those who did not regard the word of the Lord left their slaves
and livestock in the open field.
22 The Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven
so that hail may fall on the whole land of Egypt, on humans and animals and all
the plants of the field in the land of Egypt."
23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord
sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth. And the Lord rained
hail on the land of Egypt;
24 there was hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of it, such
heavy hail as had never fallen in all the land of Egypt since it became a
nation.
25 The hail struck down everything that was in the open field
throughout all the land of Egypt, both human and animal; the hail also struck
down all the plants of the field, and shattered every tree in the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, there was
no hail.
27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, and said to them,
"This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people
are in the wrong.
28 Pray to the Lord! Enough of God's thunder and hail! I will let you
go; you need stay no longer."
29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I
will stretch out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will
be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord's.
30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you do not yet fear
the Lord God."
31 (Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in
the ear and the flax was in bud.
32 But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in
coming up.)
33 So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and stretched out his
hands to the Lord; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer
poured down on the earth.
34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder
had ceased, he sinned once more and hardened his heart, he and his
officials.
35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he would not let the
Israelites go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.
EXODUS 10
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh; for I have
hardened his heart and the heart of his officials, in order that I may show
these signs of mine among them,
2 and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I have
made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them—so that you
may know that I am the Lord."
3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and said to him, "Thus
says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "How long will you refuse to humble
yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
4 For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring
locusts into your country.
5 They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be
able to see the land. They shall devour the last remnant left you after the
hail, and they shall devour every tree of yours that grows in the field.
6 They shall fill your houses and the houses of all your officials
and of all the Egyptians—something that neither your parents nor your
grandparents have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.' “Then he
turned and went out from Pharaoh.
7 Pharaoh's officials said to him, "How long shall this fellow
be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their
God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?"
8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to
them, "Go, worship the Lord your God! But which ones are to
go?"
9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; we will
go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have
the Lord's festival to celebrate."
10 He said to them, "The Lord indeed will be with you, if ever I
let your little ones go with you! Plainly, you have some evil purpose in
mind.
11 No, never! Your men may go and worship the Lord, for that is what
you are asking." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the
land of Egypt, so that the locusts may come upon it and eat every plant in the
land, all that the hail has left."
13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the
Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; when
morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.
14 The locusts came upon all the land of Egypt and settled on the
whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before,
nor ever shall be again.
15 They covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was
black; and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees
that the hail had left; nothing green was left, no tree, no plant in the field,
in all the land of Egypt.
16 Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have
sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
17 Do forgive my sin just this once, and pray to the Lord your God
that at the least he remove this deadly thing from me."
18 So he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
19 The Lord changed the wind into a very strong west wind, which
lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was
left in all the country of Egypt.
20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the
Israelites go.
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward
heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that
can be felt."
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense
darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
23 People could not see one another, and for three days they could
not move from where they were; but all the Israelites had light where they
lived.
24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses, and said, "Go, worship the Lord.
Only your flocks and your herds shall remain behind. Even your children may go
with you."
25 But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and
burnt offerings to sacrifice to the Lord our God.
26 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left
behind, for we must choose some of them for the worship of the Lord our God,
and we will not know what to use to worship the Lord until we arrive
there."
27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was unwilling to let
them go.
28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Take care that
you do not see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall
die."
29 Moses said, "Just as you say! I will never see your face
again."
EXODUS 11
1 The Lord said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague upon
Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go from here; indeed, when
he lets you go, he will drive you away.
2 Tell the people that every man is to ask his neighbour and every
woman is to ask her neighbour for objects of silver and gold."
3 The Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses
himself was a man of great importance in the land of Egypt, in the sight of
Pharaoh's officials and in the sight of the people.
4 Moses said, "Thus says the Lord: About midnight I will go out
through Egypt.
5 Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is
behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
6 Then there will be a loud cry throughout the whole land of Egypt,
such as has never been or will ever be again.
7 But not a dog shall growl at any of the Israelites—not at people,
not at animals—so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between
Egypt and Israel.
8 Then all these officials of yours shall come down to me, and bow
low to me, saying, "Leave us, you and all the people who follow you.'
After that I will leave." And in hot anger he left Pharaoh.
9 The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, in
order that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
10 Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh; but the Lord
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his
land.
EXODUS 12
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2 This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be
the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this
month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.
4 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its
closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to
the number of people who eat of it.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take
it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the
whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts
and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted
over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the
fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs.
10 You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that
remains until the morning you shall burn.
11 This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is
the Passover of the Lord.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will
strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and
animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the
Lord.
13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live:
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you
when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall
celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall
observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you
shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the
first day until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel.
16 On the first day you shall hold a solemn assembly, and on the
seventh day a solemn assembly; no work shall be done on those days; only what
everyone must eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
17 You shall observe the festival of unleavened bread, for on this very day
I brought your companies out of the land of Egypt: you shall observe this day
throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance.
18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until
the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread.
19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for
whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel,
whether an alien or a native of the land.
20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall
eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them,
"Go, select lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover
lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood in the basin. None of
you shall go outside the door of your house until morning.
23 For the Lord will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; when
he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass
over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike
you down.
24 You shall observe this rite as a perpetual ordinance for you and
your children.
25 When you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has
promised, you shall keep this observance.
26 And when your children ask you, "What do you mean by this
observance?'
27 you shall say, "It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for
he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the
Egyptians but spared our houses.' " And the people bowed down and
worshiped.
28 The Israelites went and did just as the Lord had commanded Moses
and Aaron.
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the
prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the
Egyptians; and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without
someone dead.
31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron in the night, and said,
"Rise up, go away from my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship
the Lord, as you said.
32Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And bring a
blessing on me too!"
33 The Egyptians urged the people to hasten their departure from the
land, for they said, "We shall all be dead."
34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their
kneading bowls wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites had done as Moses told them; they had asked the
Egyptians for jewellery of silver and gold, and for clothing,
36 and the Lord had given the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And so they plundered
the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
38 A mixed crowd also went up with them, and livestock in great
numbers, both flocks and herds.
39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of
Egypt; it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not
wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
40 The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred
thirty years.
41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the
companies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
42 That was for the Lord a night of vigil, to bring them out of the
land of Egypt. That same night is a vigil to be kept for the Lord by all the
Israelites throughout their generations.
43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the ordinance for the Passover:
no foreigner shall eat of it,
44 but any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after he has
been circumcised;
45 no bound or hired servant may eat of it.
46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the
animal outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.
47 The whole congregation of Israel shall celebrate it.
48 If an alien who resides with you wants to celebrate the Passover
to the Lord, all his males shall be circumcised; then he may draw near to
celebrate it; he shall be regarded as a native of the land. But no
uncircumcised person shall eat of it;
49 there shall be one law for the native and for the alien who
resides among you.
50 All the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and
Aaron.
51 That very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of
Egypt, company by company.
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