Shemot, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} The LORD said to Moshe, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show
these my signs in the midst of them, {10:2} and that you may tell in
the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have
done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may
know that I am the LORD."
{10:3} Moshe and Aharon went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This
is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you
refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may
serve me. {10:4} Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold,
tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, {10:5} and they shall
cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the
earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which
remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for
you out of the field. {10:6} Your houses shall be filled, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as
neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the
day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out
from Pharaoh.
{10:7} 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.
Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
{10:8} Moshe and Aharon were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said
to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are those who will go?"
{10:9} Moshe said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with
our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds
will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."
{10:10} He said to them, "The LORD be with you if I will let you go
with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. {10:11}
Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what
you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
{10:12} The LORD said to Moshe, "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 herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
{10:13} Moshe stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the
LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night;
and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. {10:14}
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no
such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. {10:15} For
they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was
darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of
the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green,
either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
{10:16} Then Pharaoh called for Moshe and Aharon in haste, and he
said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
{10:17} Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the
LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
{10:18} He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD. {10:19}
The LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the
locusts, and drove them into the Sea of Suf. There remained not one
[1>]arbeh[<1] in all the borders of Egypt. {10:20} But the LORD
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el
go.
{10:21} The LORD said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand toward the
sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
which may be felt." {10:22} Moshe stretched forth his hand toward the
sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days. {10:23} They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise
from his place for three days; but all the children of Yisra'el had
light in their dwellings.
{10:24} Pharaoh called to Moshe, and said, "Go, serve the LORD. Only
let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also
go with you."
{10:25} Moshe said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. {10:26}
Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left
behind, for of it we must take to serve the LORD our God; and we don't
know with what we must serve the LORD, until we come there."
{10:27} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let
them go. {10:28} Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to
see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"
{10:29} Moshe said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face
again no more."
{11:1} The LORD said to Moshe, "Yet one plague more will I bring on
Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you
go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. {11:2} Speak now in the
ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and
every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
{11:3} The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
Moreover the man Moshe was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
{11:4} Moshe said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I
will go out into the midst of Egypt, {11:5} and all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on
his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind
the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle. {11:6} There shall be a
great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not
been, nor shall be any more. {11:7} But against any of the children of
Yisra'el a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or
animal; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between
the Egyptians and Yisra'el. {11:8} All these your servants shall come
down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all
the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out
from Pharaoh in hot anger.
{11:9} The LORD said to Moshe, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." {11:10} Moshe and
Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el go out of
his land.
{12:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt,
saying, {12:2} "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It
shall be the first month of the year to you. {12:3} Speak to all the
congregation of Yisra'el, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers'
houses, a lamb for a household; {12:4} and if the household be too
little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall
take one according to the number of the souls; according to what
everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. {12:5} Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it
from the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6} and you shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Yisra'el shall kill it at evening. {12:7} They shall
take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the
lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. {12:8} They shall
eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and [1>]matzah[<1].
They shall eat it with bitter herbs. {12:9} Don't eat it raw, nor
boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its
legs and its inner parts. {12:10} You shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you
shall burn with fire. {12:11} This is how you shall eat it: with your
loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;
and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Pesach. {12:12} For I
will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all
the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. {12:13} The
blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague
be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. {12:14}
This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast
to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever.
{12:15} Seven days shall you eat [2>]matzah[<2]; even the first day
you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut
off from Yisra'el. {12:16} In the first day there shall be to you a
holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner
of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat,
that only may be done by you. {12:17} You shall observe the feast of
[3>]matzah[<3]; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of
the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout
your generations by an ordinance forever. {12:18} In the first month,
on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat
[4>]matzah[<4], until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
{12:19} Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for
whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from
the congregation of Yisra'el, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is
born in the land. {12:20} You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your
habitations you shall eat [5>]matzah[<5].'"
{12:21} Then Moshe called for all the elders of Yisra'el, and said
to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and
kill the Pesach. {12:22} You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it
in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two
side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall
go out of the door of his house until the morning. {12:23} For the
LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the
blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass
over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your
houses to strike you. {12:24} You shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to you and to your sons forever. {12:25} It shall happen
when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according
as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. {12:26} It will
happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this
service?' {12:27} that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the
LORD's Pesach, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra'el
in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"
The people bowed their heads and worshiped. {12:28} The children of
Yisra'el went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moshe and Aharon,
so they did.
{12:29} It happened at midnight, that the LORD struck all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat
on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon;
and all the firstborn of cattle. {12:30} Pharaoh rose up in the night,
he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great
cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
{12:31} He called for Moshe and Aharon by night, and said, "Rise up,
get out from among my people, both you and the children of Yisra'el;
and go, serve the LORD, as you have said! {12:32} Take both your
flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me
also!"
{12:33} The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out
of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." {12:34}
The people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
{12:35} The children of Yisra'el did according to the word of Moshe;
and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and clothing. {12:36} The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of
the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They
despoiled the Egyptians.
{12:37} The children of Yisra'el traveled from Ra`meses to Sukkot,
about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
{12:38} A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds,
and even very much cattle. {12:39} They baked unleavened cakes of the
dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had
they prepared for themselves any food. {12:40} Now the time that the
children of Yisra'el lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
{12:41} It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the
same day it happened, that all the armies of the LORD went out from
the land of Egypt. {12:42} It is a night to be much observed to the
LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night
of the LORD, to be much observed of all the children of Yisra'el
throughout their generations.
{12:43} The LORD said to Moshe and Aharon, "This is the ordinance of
the Pesach. There shall no foreigner eat of it, {12:44} but every
man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him,
then shall he eat of it. {12:45} A foreigner and a hired servant shall
not eat of it. {12:46} In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not
carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither
shall you break a bone of it. {12:47} All the congregation of Yisra'el
shall keep it. {12:48} When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with
you, and will keep the Pesach to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be
as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat
of it. {12:49} One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you." {12:50} Thus did all the
children of Yisra'el. As the LORD commanded Moshe and Aharon, so they
did. {12:51} It happened the same day, that the LORD brought the
children of Yisra'el out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:19} locust
[1] {12:8} unleavened bread
[2] {12:15} unleavened bread
[3] {12:17} unleavened bread
[4] {12:18} unleavened bread
[5] {12:20} unleavened bread
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