EXO 4:1 Then
Moses answered and said, "What if they will not
believe me, or listen to what I say? For they may
say, 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'"
EXO 4:2 And the Lord said to him, "What is
that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff."
EXO 4:3 Then He said, "Throw it on the
ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became
a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
EXO 4:4 But the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch
out your hand and grasp {it} by its tail" - - so he
stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became
a staff in his hand - -
EXO 4:5 "that they may believe that the Lord,
the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to
you."
EXO 4:6 And the Lord furthermore said to him,
"Now put your hand into your bosom." So he put his
hand into his bosom, and when he took it out,
behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
EXO 4:7 Then He said, "Put your hand into
your bosom again." So he put his hand into his bosom
again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold,
it was restored like {the rest of} his flesh.
EXO 4:8 "And it shall come about that if they
will not believe you or heed the witness of the
first sign, they may believe the witness of the last
sign.
EXO 4:9 "But it shall be that if they will
not believe even these two signs or heed what you
say, then you shall take some water from the Nile
and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which
you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry
ground."
EXO 4:10 Then Moses said to the Lord,
"Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither
recently nor in time past, nor since Thou hast
spoken to Thy servant; for I am slow of speech and
slow of tongue."
EXO 4:11 And the Lord said to him, "Who has
made man's mouth? Or who makes {him} dumb or deaf,
or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
EXO 4:12 "Now then go, and I, even I, will be
with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say."
EXO 4:13 But he said, "Please, Lord, now send
{the message} by whomever Thou wilt."
EXO 4:14 Then the anger of the Lord burned
against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your
brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks
fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to
meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his
heart.
EXO 4:15 "And you are to speak to him and put
the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with
your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what
you are to do.
EXO 4:16 "Moreover, he shall speak for you to
the people; and it shall come about that he shall be
as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him.
EXO 4:17 "And you shall take in your hand
this staff, with which you shall perform the signs."
EXO 4:18 Then Moses departed and returned to
Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please,
let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are
in Egypt, and see if they are still alive." And
Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
EXO 4:19 Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian,
"Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking
your life are dead."
EXO 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons
and mounted them on a donkey, and he returned to the
land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in
his hand.
EXO 4:21 And the Lord said to Moses, "When
you go back to Egypt see that you perform before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your
power; but I will harden his heart so that he will
not let the people go.
EXO 4:22 "Then you shall say to Pharaoh,
'Thus says the Lord," Israel is My son, My
first-born.
EXO 4:23 "So I said to you, 'Let My son go,
that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let
him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your
first-born."' "
EXO 4:24 Now it came about at the lodging
place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to
put him to death.
EXO 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut
off her son's foreskin and threw {it} at Moses'
feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of
blood to me."
EXO 4:26 So He let him alone. At that time
she said, "{You are} a bridegroom of blood" - -
because of the circumcision.
EXO 4:27 Now the Lord said to Aaron, "Go to
meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met
him at the mountain of God, and he kissed him.
EXO 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words
of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the
signs that He had commanded him {to do.}
EXO 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and
assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;
EXO 4:30 and Aaron spoke all the words which
the Lord had spoken to Moses. He then performed the
signs in the sight of the people.
EXO 4:31 So the people believed; and when
they heard that the Lord was concerned about the
sons of Israel and that He had seen their
affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.
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EXO 5:1 And
afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let My
people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in
the wilderness.'"
EXO 5:2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord
that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do
not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let
Israel go."
EXO 5:3 Then they said, "The God of the
Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three
days' journey into the wilderness that we may
sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us
with pestilence or with the sword."
EXO 5:4 But the king of Egypt said to them,
"Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away
from their work? Get {back} to your labors!"
EXO 5:5 Again Pharaoh said, "Look, the people
of the land are now many, and you would have them
cease from their labors!"
EXO 5:6 So the same day Pharaoh commanded the
taskmasters over the people and their foremen,
saying,
EXO 5:7 "You are no longer to give the people
straw to make brick as previously; let them go and
gather straw for themselves.
EXO 5:8 "But the quota of bricks which they
were making previously, you shall impose on them;
you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are
lazy, therefore they cry out, 'Let us go and
sacrifice to our God.'
EXO 5:9 "Let the labor be heavier on the men,
and let them work at it that they may pay no
attention to false words."
EXO 5:10 So the taskmasters of the people and
their foremen went out and spoke to the people,
saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I am not going to give
you {any} straw.
EXO 5:11 'You go {and} get straw for
yourselves wherever you can find {it;} but none of
your labor will be reduced.' "
EXO 5:12 So the people scattered through all
the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
EXO 5:13 And the taskmasters pressed them,
saying, "Complete your work quota, {your} daily
amount, just as when you had straw."
EXO 5:14 Moreover, the foremen of the sons of
Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not
completed your required amount either yesterday or
today in making brick as previously?"
EXO 5:15 Then the foremen of the sons of
Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why
do you deal this way with your servants?
EXO 5:16 "There is no straw given to your
servants, yet they keep saying to us, 'Make bricks!'
And behold, your servants are being beaten; but it
is the fault of your {own} people."
EXO 5:17 But he said, "You are lazy, {very}
lazy; therefore you say, 'Let us go {and} sacrifice
to the Lord.'
EXO 5:18 "So go now {and} work; for you shall
be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of
bricks."
EXO 5:19 And the foremen of the sons of
Israel saw that they were in trouble because they
were told, "You must not reduce {your} daily amount
of bricks."
EXO 5:20 When they left Pharaoh's presence,
they met Moses and Aaron as they were waiting for
them.
EXO 5:21 And they said to them, "May the Lord
look upon you and judge {you,} for you have made us
odious in Pharaoh's sight and in the sight of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
EXO 5:22 Then Moses returned to the Lord and
said, "O Lord, why hast Thou brought harm to this
people? Why didst Thou ever send me?
EXO 5:23 "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to
speak in Thy name, he has done harm to this people;
and Thou hast not delivered Thy people at all."
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EXO 6:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will
do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he shall let
them go, and under compulsion he shall drive them
out of his land."
EXO 6:2 God spoke further to Moses and said
to him, "I am the Lord;
EXO 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, as God Almighty, but {by} My name, Lord, I
did not make Myself known to them.
EXO 6:4 "And I also established My covenant
with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land
in which they sojourned.
EXO 6:5 "And furthermore I have heard the
groaning of the sons of Israel, because the
Egyptians are holding them in bondage; and I have
remembered My covenant. EXO 6:6 "Say,
therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am the Lord,
and I will bring you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their
bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched
arm and with great judgments.
EXO 6:7 'Then I will take you for My people,
and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am
the Lord your God, who brought you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.
EXO 6:8 'And I will bring you to the land
which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and I will give it to you {for} a possession; I am
the Lord.' "
EXO 6:9 So Moses spoke thus to the sons of
Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account
of {their} despondency and cruel bondage.
EXO 6:10 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
EXO 6:11 "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to
let the sons of Israel go out of his land."
EXO 6:12 But Moses spoke before the Lord,
saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not
listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me,
for I am unskilled in speech?"
EXO 6:13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel
and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of
Israel out of the land of Egypt.
EXO 6:14 These are the heads of their
fathers' households. The sons of Reuben, Israel's
first-born: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben.
EXO 6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and
Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the
son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of
Simeon.
EXO 6:16 And these are the names of the sons
of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and
Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was
one hundred and thirty-seven years.
EXO 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and
Shimei, according to their families.
EXO 6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and
Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of
Kohath's life was one hundred and thirty-three
years.
EXO 6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. These are the families of the Levites
according to their generations.
EXO 6:20 And Amram married his father's
sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses;
and the length of Amram's life was one hundred and
thirty-seven years.
EXO 6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah and
Nepheg and Zichri.
EXO 6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and
Elzaphan and Sithri.
EXO 6:23 And Aaron married Elisheba, the
daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and
she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
EXO 6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir and
Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
Korahites.
EXO 6:25 And Aaron's son Eleazar married one
of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him
Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers'
{households} of the Levites according to their
families.
EXO 6:26 It was {the same} Aaron and Moses to
whom the Lord said, "Bring out the sons of Israel
from the land of Egypt according to their hosts."
EXO 6:27 They were the ones who spoke to
Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of
Israel from Egypt; it was {the same} Moses and
Aaron.
EXO 6:28 Now it came about on the day when
the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
EXO 6:29 that the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, "I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of
Egypt all that I speak to you."
EXO 6:30 But Moses said before the Lord,
"Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will
Pharaoh listen to me?"
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EXO 7:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "See, I make you {as} God to
Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your
prophet.
EXO 7:2 "You shall speak all that I command
you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh
that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.
EXO 7:3 "But I will harden Pharaoh's heart
that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the
land of Egypt.
EXO 7:4 "When Pharaoh will not listen to you,
then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My
hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land
of Egypt by great judgments.
EXO 7:5 "And the Egyptians shall know that I
am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and
bring out the sons of Israel from their midst."
EXO 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did {it;} as the
Lord commanded them, thus they did.
EXO 7:7 And Moses was eighty years old and
Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
EXO 7:8 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying,
EXO 7:9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying,
'Work a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take
your staff and throw {it} down before Pharaoh,
{that} it may become a serpent.'"
EXO 7:10 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh,
and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded;
and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and
his servants, and it became a serpent.
EXO 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for {the}
wise men and {the} sorcerers, and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret
arts.
EXO 7:12 For each one threw down his staff
and they turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff
swallowed up their staffs.
EXO 7:13 Yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened,
and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
EXO 7:14 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Pharaoh's heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the
people go.
EXO 7:15 "Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he
is going out to the water, and station yourself to
meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take
in your hand the staff that was turned into a
serpent.
EXO 7:16 "And you will say to him, 'The Lord,
the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying," Let
My people go, that they may serve Me in the
wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until
now."
EXO 7:17 'Thus says the Lord, "By this you
shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike
the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is
in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood.
EXO 7:18 "And the fish that are in the Nile
will die, and the Nile will become foul; and the
Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water
from the Nile."' "
EXO 7:19 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand
over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over
their streams, and over their pools, and over all
their reservoirs of water, that they may become
blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the
land of Egypt, both in {vessels of} wood and in
{vessels of} stone.'"
EXO 7:20 So Moses and Aaron did even as the
Lord had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and
struck the water that {was} in the Nile, in the
sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants,
and all the water that {was} in the Nile was turned
to blood.
EXO 7:21 And the fish that {were} in the Nile
died, and the Nile became foul, so that the
Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And
the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
EXO 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the
same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord
had said.
EXO 7:23 Then Pharaoh turned and went into
his house with no concern even for this.
EXO 7:24 So all the Egyptians dug around the
Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of
the water of the Nile.
EXO 7:25 And seven days passed after the Lord
had struck the Nile.
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EXO 8:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him,
'Thus says the Lord," Let My people go, that they
may serve Me.
EXO 8:2 "But if you refuse to let {them} go,
behold, I will smite your whole territory with
frogs.
EXO 8:3 "And the Nile will swarm with frogs,
which will come up and go into your house and into
your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of
your servants and on your people, and into your
ovens and into your kneading bowls.
EXO 8:4 "So the frogs will come up on you and
your people and all your servants."' "
EXO 8:5 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over
the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and
make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'"
EXO 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and
covered the land of Egypt.
EXO 8:7 And the magicians did the same with
their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land
of Egypt.
EXO 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron and said, "Entreat the Lord that He remove the
frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the
people go, that they may sacrifice to the Lord."
EXO 8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, "The honor
is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you
and your servants and your people, that the frogs be
destroyed from you and your houses, {that} they may
be left only in the Nile?"
EXO 8:10 Then he said, "Tomorrow." So he
said, "{May it be} according to your word, that you
may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
EXO 8:11 "And the frogs will depart from you
and your houses and your servants and your people;
they will be left only in the Nile."
EXO 8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the
frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.
EXO 8:13 And the Lord did according to the
word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses,
the courts, and the fields.
EXO 8:14 So they piled them in heaps, and the
land became foul.
EXO 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to
them, as the Lord had said.
EXO 8:16 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust
of the earth, that it may become gnats through all
the land of Egypt.'"
EXO 8:17 And they did so; and Aaron stretched
out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of
the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast.
All the dust of the earth became gnats through all
the land of Egypt.
EXO 8:18 And the magicians tried with their
secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could
not; so there were gnats on man and beast.
EXO 8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh,
"This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord
had said.
EXO 8:20 Now the Lord said to Moses, "Rise
early in the morning and present yourself before
Pharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to
him, 'Thus says the Lord," Let My people go, that
they may serve Me.
EXO 8:21 "For if you will not let My people
go, behold, I will send swarms of insects on you and
on your servants and on your people and into your
houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be
full of swarms of insects, and also the ground on
which they {dwell.}
EXO 8:22 "But on that day I will set apart
the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so
that no swarms of insects will be there, in order
that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst
of the land.
EXO 8:23 "And I will put a division between
My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall
occur."' "
EXO 8:24 Then the Lord did so. And there came
great swarms of insects into the house of Pharaoh
and the houses of his servants and the land was laid
waste because of the swarms of insects in all the
land of Egypt.
EXO 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within
the land."
EXO 8:26 But Moses said, "It is not right to
do so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God
what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we
sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians
before their eyes, will they not then stone us?
EXO 8:27 "We must go a three days' journey
into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our
God as He commands us."
EXO 8:28 And Pharaoh said, "I will let you
go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in
the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away.
Make supplication for me."
EXO 8:29 Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going
out from you, and I shall make supplication to the
Lord that the swarms of insects may depart from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people
tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully
again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to
the Lord."
EXO 8:30 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and
made supplication to the Lord.
EXO 8:31 And the Lord did as Moses asked, and
removed the swarms of insects from Pharaoh, from his
servants and from his people; not one remained.
EXO 8:32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this
time also, and he did not let the people go.
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EXO 9:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and speak to him,
'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews," Let My
people go, that they may serve Me.
EXO 9:2 "For if you refuse to let {them} go,
and continue to hold them,
EXO 9:3 behold, the hand of the Lord will
come {with} a very severe pestilence on your
livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on
the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the
flocks.
EXO 9:4 "But the Lord will make a distinction
between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of
Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs
to the sons of Israel."' "
EXO 9:5 And the Lord set a definite time,
saying, "Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the
land."
EXO 9:6 So the Lord did this thing on the
morrow, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of
the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.
EXO 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there
was not even one of the livestock of Israel dead.
But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did
not let the people go.
EXO 9:8 Then the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron, "Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a
kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the
sight of Pharaoh.
EXO 9:9 "And it will become fine dust over
all the land of Egypt, and will become boils
breaking out with sores on man and beast through all
the land of Egypt."
EXO 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and
stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it toward the
sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on
man and beast.
EXO 9:11 And the magicians could not stand
before Moses because of the boils, for the boils
were on the magicians as well as on all the
Egyptians.
EXO 9:12 And the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the
Lord had spoken to Moses.
EXO 9:13 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise
up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and
say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the
Hebrews," Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
EXO 9:14 "For this time I will send all My
plagues on you and your servants and your people, so
that you may know that there is no one like Me in
all the earth.
EXO 9:15 "For {if by} now I had put forth My
hand and struck you and your people with pestilence,
you would then have been cut off from the earth.
EXO 9:16 "But, indeed, for this cause I have
allowed you to remain, in order to show you My
power, and in order to proclaim My name through all
the earth.
EXO 9:17 "Still you exalt yourself against My
people by not letting them go.
EXO 9:18 "Behold, about this time tomorrow, I
will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been
{seen} in Egypt from the day it was founded until
now.
EXO 9:19 "Now therefore send, bring your
livestock and whatever you have in the field to
safety. Every man and beast that is found in the
field and is not brought home, when the hail comes
down on them, will die."' "
EXO 9:20 The one among the servants of
Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord made his
servants and his livestock flee into the houses;
EXO 9:21 but he who paid no regard to the
word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock
in the field.
EXO 9:22 Now the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch
out your hand toward the sky, that hail may fall on
all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on
every plant of the field, throughout the land of
Egypt."
EXO 9:23 And Moses stretched out his staff
toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail,
and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained
hail on the land of Egypt.
EXO 9:24 So there was hail, and fire flashing
continually in the midst of the hail, very severe,
such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since
it became a nation.
EXO 9:25 And the hail struck all that was in
the field through all the land of Egypt, both man
and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the
field and shattered every tree of the field.
EXO 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where
the sons of Israel {were,} there was no hail.
EXO 9:27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and
Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time;
the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people
are the wicked ones.
EXO 9:28 "Make supplication to the Lord, for
there has been enough of God's thunder and hail; and
I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
EXO 9:29 And Moses said to him, "As soon as I
go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to
the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be
hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is
the Lord's.
EXO 9:30 "But as for you and your servants, I
know that you do not yet fear the Lord God."
EXO 9:31 (Now the flax and the barley were
ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax
was in bud.
EXO 9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not
ruined, for they {ripen} late.)
EXO 9:33 So Moses went out of the city from
Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and
the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer
poured on the earth.
EXO 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain
and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned
again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
EXO 9:35 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened,
and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as
the Lord had spoken through Moses.
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EXO 10:1 Then the
Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have
hardened his heart and the heart of his servants,
that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,
EXO 10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing
of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a
mockery of the Egyptians, and how I performed My
signs among them; that you may know that I am the
Lord."
EXO 10:3 And 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, that they may
serve Me.
EXO 10:4 'For if you refuse to let My people
go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your
territory.
EXO 10:5 'And they shall cover the surface of
the land, so that no one shall be able to see the
land. They shall also eat the rest of what has
escaped - - what is left to you from the hail - -
and they shall eat every tree which sprouts for you
out of the field.
EXO 10:6 'Then your houses shall be filled,
and the houses of all your servants and the houses
of all the Egyptians, {something} which neither your
fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the
day that they came upon the earth until this day.'
"And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
EXO 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him,
"How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the
men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do
you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
EXO 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back
to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord
your God! Who are the ones that are going?"
EXO 10:9 And Moses said, "We shall go with
our young and our old; with our sons and our
daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go,
for we must hold a feast to the Lord."
EXO 10:10 Then he said to them, "Thus may the
Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little
ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.
EXO 10:11 "Not so! Go now, the men {among
you,} and serve the Lord, for that is what you
desire." So they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.
EXO 10:12 Then the Lord said to Moses,
"Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for
the locusts, that they may come up on the land of
Egypt, and eat every plant of the land, {even} all
that the hail has left."
EXO 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff
over the land of Egypt, and the Lord directed an
east wind on the land all that day and all that
night; and when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
EXO 10:14 And the locusts came up over all
the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory
of Egypt; {they were} very numerous. There had never
been so {many} locusts, nor would there be so {many}
again.
EXO 10:15 For they covered the surface of the
whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they
ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the
trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was
left on tree or plant of the field through all the
land of Egypt.
EXO 10:16 Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for
Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against
the Lord your God a
