Shemot, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} The LORD said to Moshe, "Behold, I have made you as God to
Par`oh; and Aharon your brother shall be your prophet. {7:2} You shall
speak all that I command you; and Aharon your brother shall speak to
Par`oh, that he let the children of Yisra'el go out of his land. {7:3}
I will harden Par`oh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in
the land of Mitzrayim. {7:4} But Par`oh will not listen to you, and I
will lay my hand on Mitzrayim, and bring forth my hosts, my people the
children of Yisra'el, out of the land of Mitzrayim by great judgments.
{7:5} The Mitzrim shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth
my hand on Mitzrayim, and bring out the children of Yisra'el from
among them."
{7:6} Moshe and Aharon did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they
did. {7:7} Moshe was eighty years old, and Aharon eighty-three years
old, when they spoke to Par`oh.
{7:8} The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, {7:9} "When
Par`oh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell
Aharon, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Par`oh, that it become
a serpent.'"
{7:10} Moshe and Aharon went in to Par`oh, and they did so, as the
LORD had commanded: and Aharon cast down his rod before Par`oh and
before his servants, and it became a serpent. {7:11} Then Par`oh also
called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of
Mitzrayim, did in like manner with their enchantments. {7:12} For they
cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aharon's
rod swallowed up their rods. {7:13} Par`oh's heart was hardened, and
he didn't listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.
{7:14} The LORD said to Moshe, "Par`oh's heart is stubborn. He
refuses to let the people go. {7:15} Go to Par`oh in the morning.
Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's
bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall
take in your hand. {7:16} You shall tell him, 'The LORD, the God of
the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they
may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't
listened. {7:17} Thus says the LORD, "In this you shall know that I am
the LORD. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the
waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
{7:18} The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall
become foul; and the Mitzrim shall loathe to drink water from the
river."'" {7:19} The LORD said to Moshe, "Tell Aharon, 'Take your rod,
and stretch out your hand over the waters of Mitzrayim, over their
rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their
ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood
throughout all the land of Mitzrayim, both in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone.'"
{7:20} Moshe and Aharon did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted
up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight
of Par`oh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that
were in the river were turned to blood. {7:21} The fish that were in
the river died; and the river became foul, and the Mitzrim couldn't
drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land
of Mitzrayim. {7:22} The magicians of Mitzrayim did in like manner
with their enchantments; and Par`oh's heart was hardened, and he
didn't listen to them; as the LORD had spoken. {7:23} Par`oh turned
and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. {7:24}
All the Mitzrim dug round about the river for water to drink; for they
couldn't drink of the water of the river. {7:25} Seven days were
fulfilled, after the LORD had struck the river.
{8:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, Go in to Par`oh, and tell him, "This
is what the LORD says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.
{8:2} If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your
borders with frogs: {8:3} and the river shall swarm with frogs, which
shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on
your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and
into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs: {8:4} and the frogs
shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your
servants.'" {8:5} The LORD said to Moshe, "Tell Aharon, 'Stretch forth
your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over
the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Mitzrayim.'"
{8:6} Aharon stretched out his hand over the waters of Mitzrayim; and
the frogs came up, and covered the land of Mitzrayim. {8:7} The
magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up
frogs on the land of Mitzrayim.
{8:8} Then Par`oh called for Moshe and Aharon, and said, "Entreat
the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and
I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD."
{8:9} Moshe said to Par`oh, "I give you the honor of setting the
time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your
people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and
remain in the river only."
{8:10} He said, "Tomorrow."
He said, "Be it according to your word, that you may know that there
is none like the LORD our God. {8:11} The frogs shall depart from you,
and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people.
They shall remain in the river only."
{8:12} Moshe and Aharon went out from Par`oh, and Moshe cried to the
LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought on Par`oh. {8:13} The
LORD did according to the word of Moshe, and the frogs died out of the
houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. {8:14} They gathered
them together in heaps, and the land stank. {8:15} But when Par`oh saw
that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to
them, as the LORD had spoken.
{8:16} The LORD said to Moshe, "Tell Aharon, 'Stretch out your rod,
and strike the dust of the [1>]eretz[<1], that it may become lice
throughout all the land of Mitzrayim.'" {8:17} They did so; and Aharon
stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the
[2>]eretz[<2], and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust
of the [3>]eretz[<3] became lice throughout all the land of Mitzrayim.
{8:18} The magicians tried with their enchantments to bring forth
lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal. {8:19}
Then the magicians said to Par`oh, "This is the finger of God:" and
Par`oh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as the LORD
had spoken.
{8:20} The LORD said to Moshe, "Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Par`oh; behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell
him, 'This is what the LORD says, "Let my people go, that they may
serve me. {8:21} Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I
will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your
people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Mitzrim shall be
full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. {8:22}
I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people
dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know
that I am the LORD in the midst of the [4>]eretz[<4]. {8:23} I will
put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall
this sign be."'" {8:24} The LORD did so; and there came grievous
swarms of flies into the house of Par`oh, and into his servants'
houses: and in all the land of Mitzrayim the land was corrupted by
reason of the swarms of flies.
{8:25} Par`oh called for Moshe and for Aharon, and said, "Go,
sacrifice to your God in the land!"
{8:26} Moshe said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Mitzrim to the LORD our God. Behold,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Mitzrim before their eyes,
and won't they stone us? {8:27} We will go three days' journey into
the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command
us."
{8:28} Par`oh 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. Pray for me."
{8:29} Moshe said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to
the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Par`oh, from his
servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Par`oh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the
LORD." {8:30} Moshe went out from Par`oh, and prayed to the LORD.
{8:31} The LORD did according to the word of Moshe, and he removed the
swarms of flies from Par`oh, from his servants, and from his people.
There remained not one. {8:32} Par`oh hardened his heart this time
also, and he didn't let the people go.
{9:1} Then the LORD said to Moshe, "Go in to Par`oh, and tell him,
'This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people
go, that they may serve me. {9:2} For if you refuse to let them go,
and hold them still, {9:3} behold, the hand of the LORD is on your
cattle which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the
camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous
pestilence. {9:4} The LORD will make a distinction between the cattle
of Yisra'el and the cattle of Mitzrayim; and there shall nothing die
of all that belongs to the children of Yisra'el."'" {9:5} The LORD
appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing
in the land." {9:6} The LORD did that thing on the next day; and all
the cattle of Mitzrayim died, but of the cattle of the children of
Yisra'el, not one died. {9:7} Par`oh sent, and, behold, there was not
so much as one of the cattle of the Yisra'elites dead. But the heart
of Par`oh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
{9:8} The LORD said to Moshe and to Aharon, "Take to you handfuls of
ashes of the furnace, and let Moshe sprinkle it toward the sky in the
sight of Par`oh. {9:9} It shall become small dust over all the land of
Mitzrayim, and shall be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on
animal, throughout all the land of Mitzrayim."
{9:10} They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Par`oh; and
Moshe sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking
forth with boils on man and on animal. {9:11} The magicians couldn't
stand before Moshe because of the boils; for the boils were on the
magicians, and on all the Mitzrim. {9:12} The LORD hardened the heart
of Par`oh, and he didn't listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to
Moshe.
{9:13} The LORD said to Moshe, "Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Par`oh, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD, the God of
the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me. {9:14}
For this time I will send all my plagues on your heart, and on your
servants, and on your people; that you may know that there is none
like me in all the [1>]eretz[<1]. {9:15} For now I would have put
forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you
would have been cut off from the [2>]eretz[<2]; {9:16} but indeed for
this cause I have made you stand, to show you my power, and that my
name may be declared throughout all the [3>]eretz[<3]. {9:17} As you
still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
{9:18} Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very
grievous hail, such as has not been in Mitzrayim since the day it was
founded even until now. {9:19} Now therefore command that all of your
cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter.
Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought
home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
{9:20} Those who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
Par`oh made their servants and their cattle flee into the houses.
{9:21} Whoever didn't regard the word of the LORD left his servants
and his cattle in the field.
{9:22} The LORD said to Moshe, "Stretch forth your hand toward the
sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Mitzrayim, on man, and
on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of
Mitzrayim."
{9:23} Moshe stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and the
LORD sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the
[4>]eretz[<4]. The LORD rained hail on the land of Mitzrayim. {9:24}
So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such
as had not been in all the land of Mitzrayim since it became a nation.
{9:25} The hail struck throughout all the land of Mitzrayim all that
was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb
of the field, and broke every tree of the field. {9:26} Only in the
land of Goshen, where the children of Yisra'el were, there was no hail.
{9:27} Par`oh sent, and called for Moshe and Aharon, and said to
them, "I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and I and my
people are wicked. {9:28} Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough
of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay
no longer."
{9:29} Moshe said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I
will spread abroad my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease,
neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the
[5>]eretz[<5] is the LORD's. {9:30} But as for you and your servants,
I know that you will not yet fear the LORD God."
{9:31} The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in
the ear, and the flax was in bloom. {9:32} But the wheat and the spelt
were not struck, for they had not grown up. {9:33} Moshe went out of
the city from Par`oh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and the
thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the
[6>]eretz[<6]. {9:34} When Par`oh saw that the rain and the hail and
the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart,
he and his servants. {9:35} The heart of Par`oh was hardened, and he
didn't let the children of Yisra'el go, as the LORD had spoken through
Moshe.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:16} earth
[2] {8:17} earth
[3] {8:17} earth
[4] {8:22} earth
[1] {9:14} earth
[2] {9:15} earth
[3] {9:16} earth
[4] {9:23} earth
[5] {9:29} earth
[6] {9:33} earth
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