Exodus, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} The LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show
these my signs in their midst, {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} Moses and Aaron 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} Moses and Aaron 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} Moses 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 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 herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
{10:13} Moses stretched out 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 Moses and Aaron 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
locust in all the borders of Egypt. {10:20} But the LORD hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.
{10:21} The LORD said to Moses, "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} Moses stretched out 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 Israel had
light in their dwellings.
{10:24} Pharaoh called to Moses, 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} Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. {10:26}
Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall 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} Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face
again no more."
{11:1} The LORD said to Moses, "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 Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
{11:4} Moses 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 female servant who is behind
the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock. {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
Israel 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 Israel. {11:8} All these your servants shall come
down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with 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 Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." {11:10} Moses and
Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of
his land.
{12:1} The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron 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 Israel, 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 is 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 Israel shall kill it at evening. {12:7} They shall
take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts 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 unleavened bread.
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
belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your
hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.
{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 you shall eat unleavened bread; 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 Israel. {12:16} In the first day there shall be
to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation;
no kind 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 unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your
armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall 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 unleavened bread, 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 Israel, 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 unleavened bread.'"
{12:21} Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to
them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill
the Passover. {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
doorposts 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 doorposts, 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
Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in
Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"
The people bowed their heads and worshiped. {12:28} The children of
Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, 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 livestock. {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 Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
"Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of
Israel; 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 Israel did according to the word of Moses; 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 Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth,
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 livestock. {12:39} They baked unleavened cakes of
the dough which they brought 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 Israel 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 Israel
throughout their generations.
{12:43} The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of
the Passover. No foreigner shall 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
out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you
break a bone of it. {12:47} All the congregation of Israel shall keep
it. {12:48} When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and
will keep the Passover 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} All the children of Israel
did so. As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. {12:51} It
happened the same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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