001:001 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt
(every man and his household came with Jacob):
001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
001:004 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
001:005 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls,
and Joseph was in Egypt already.
001:006 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
001:007 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly,
and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land
was filled with them.
001:008 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.
001:009 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children
of Israel are more and mightier than we.
001:010 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply,
and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join
themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape
out of the land."
001:011 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict
them with their burdens. They built storage cities
for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied
and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of
the children of Israel.
001:013 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
001:014 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar
and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field,
all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
001:015 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name
of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
001:016 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife
to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool;
if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter,
then she shall live."
001:017 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king
of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
001:018 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them,
"Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"
001:019 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women
aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous,
and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
001:020 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied,
and grew very mighty.
001:021 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he
gave them families.
001:022 Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every
son who is born into the river, and every daughter you
shall save alive."
002:001 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi
as his wife.
002:002 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was
a fine child, she hid him three months.
002:003 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus
basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch.
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by
the river's bank.
002:004 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
002:005 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river.
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket
among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.
002:006 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried.
She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of
the Hebrews' children."
002:007 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go
and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she
may nurse the child for you?"
002:008 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called
the child's mother.
002:009 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away,
and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."
The woman took the child, and nursed it.
002:010 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son. She named him Moses,{"Moses"
sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".} and said, "Because I
drew him out of the water."
002:011 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up,
that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens.
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
002:012 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
002:013 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews
were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong,
"Why do you strike your fellow?"
002:014 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan
to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid,
and said, "Surely this thing is known."
002:015 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land
of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
002:016 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters.
They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water
their father's flock.
002:017 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock.
002:018 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it
that you have returned so early today?"
002:019 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
002:020 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you
have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
002:021 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave
Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
002:022 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,{"Gershom"
sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for he said,
"I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
002:023 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king
of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of
the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God
because of the bondage.
002:024 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
002:025 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
003:001 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back
of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
003:002 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush
burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
003:003 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight,
why the bush is not burnt."
003:004 When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him
out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said,
"Here I am."
003:005 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet,
for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
003:006 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
003:007 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are
in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters,
for I know their sorrows.
003:008 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land,
to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place
of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
003:009 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me.
Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the
Egyptians oppress them.
003:010 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh,
that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel,
out of Egypt."
003:011 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh,
and that I should bring forth the children of Israel
out of Egypt?"
003:012 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token
to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth
the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
003:013 Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children
of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has
sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?'
What should I tell them?"
003:014 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell
the children of Israel this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
003:015 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of
Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.'
This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
003:016 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them,
'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac,
and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely
visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
003:017 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction
of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
003:018 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and
the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall
tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us.
Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
003:019 I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission
to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
003:020 I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders
which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will
let you go.
003:021 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
003:022 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits
her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing;
and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters.
You shall despoil the Egyptians.
004:001 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me,
nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not
appeared to you.'"
004:002 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?"
He said, "A rod."
004:003 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground,
and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
004:004 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail."
He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became
a rod in his hand.
004:005 "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
has appeared to you."
004:006 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside
your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took
it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
004:007 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again."
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out
of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
004:008 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen
to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe
the voice of the latter sign.
004:009 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs,
neither listen to your voice, that you shall take
of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land.
The water which you take out of the river will become blood
on the dry land."
004:010 Moses said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant;
for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
004:011 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute,
or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?
004:012 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach
you what you shall speak."
004:013 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
004:014 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said,
"What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can
speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you.
When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
004:015 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth.
I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
you what you shall do.
004:016 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen,
that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
004:017 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall
do the signs."
004:018 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law,
and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers
who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive."
Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
004:019 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt;
for all the men who sought your life are dead."
004:020 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey,
and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod
in his hand.
004:021 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you
do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand,
but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
004:022 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is
my son, my firstborn,
004:023 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;"
and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill
your son, your firstborn.'"
004:024 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met
him and wanted to kill him.
004:025 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son,
and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a
bridegroom of blood to me."
004:026 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom
of blood," because of the circumcision.
004:027 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses."
He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
004:028 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had
sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him.
004:029 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders
of the children of Israel.
004:030 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses,
and did the signs in the sight of the people.
004:031 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited
the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction,
then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
005:001 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is
what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
005:002 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice
to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will
not let Israel go."
005:003 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us.
Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us
with pestilence, or with the sword."
005:004 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron,
take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"
005:005 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many,
and you make them rest from their burdens."
005:006 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people,
and their officers, saying,
005:007 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before.
Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
005:008 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require
from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they
are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice
to our God.'
005:009 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein;
and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
005:010 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says:
"I will not give you straw.
005:011 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing
of your work shall be diminished."
005:012 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land
of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
005:013 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily,
as when there was straw!"
005:014 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
"Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today,
in making brick as before?"
005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
005:016 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us,
'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten;
but the fault is in your own people."
005:017 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say,
'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'
005:018 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you,
yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
005:019 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were
in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything
from your daily quota of bricks!"
005:020 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came
forth from Pharaoh:
005:021 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge,
because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes
of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword
in their hand to kill us."
005:022 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought
trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
005:023 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has
brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered
your people at all."
006:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh,
for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong
hand he shall drive them out of his land."
006:002 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh;
006:003 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty;
but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
006:004 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they
lived as aliens.
006:005 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered
my covenant.
006:006 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
006:007 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
006:008 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage:
I am Yahweh.'"
006:009 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen
to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
006:010 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
006:011 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children
of Israel go out of his land."
006:012 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel
haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me,
who am of uncircumcised lips?"
006:013 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge
to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
006:014 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben
the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi;
these are the families of Reuben.
006:015 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.
006:016 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to
their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years
of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
006:017 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
006:018 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one
hundred thirty-three years.
006:019 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families
of the Levites according to their generations.
006:020 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife;
and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life
of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
006:021 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
006:022 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
006:023 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab,
the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
006:024 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph;
these are the families of the Korahites.
006:025 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife;
and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers'
houses of the Levites according to their families.
006:026 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said,
"Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
according to their armies."
006:027 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt.
These are that Moses and Aaron.
006:028 It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the
land of Egypt,
006:029 that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh.
Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."
006:030 Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips,
and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
007:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh;
and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
007:002 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother
shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel
go out of his land.
007:003 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my
wonders in the land of Egypt.
007:004 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt,
and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel,
out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
007:005 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch
forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel
from among them."
007:006 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
007:007 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old,
when they spoke to Pharaoh.
007:008 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
007:009 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!'
then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down
before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
007:010 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh
had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh
and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
007:011 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers.
They also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner
with their enchantments.
007:012 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents:
but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
007:013 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them;
as Yahweh had spoken.
007:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn.
He refuses to let the people go.
007:015 Go to Pharaoh 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.
007:016 You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, 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.
007:017 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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.
007:018 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall
become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water
from the river."'"
007:019 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod,
and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt,
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 Egypt,
both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
007:020 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted
up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river,
in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants;
and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
007:021 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul,
and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river;
and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
007:022 The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments;
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them;
as Yahweh had spoken.
007:023 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay
even this to heart.
007:024 All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink;
for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.
007:025 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
008:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him,
"This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
008:002 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your
borders with frogs:
008:003 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:
008:004 and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people,
and on all your servants.'"
008:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, '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 Egypt.'"
008:006 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt;
and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
008:007 The magicians did in like manner with their enchantments,
and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
008:008 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh,
that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people;
and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."
008:009 Moses said to Pharaoh, "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."
008:010 He said, "Tomorrow." He said, "Be it according to your word,
that you may know that there is none like Yahweh our God.
008:011 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."
008:012 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh
concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
008:013 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died
out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
008:014 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
008:015 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened
his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
008:016 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod,
and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
008:017 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod,
and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man,
and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout
all the land of Egypt.
008:018 The magicians tried with their enchantments to bring forth lice,
but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal.
008:019 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:"
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them;
as Yahweh had spoken.
008:020 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water;
and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go,
that they may serve me.
008:021 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 Egyptians shall be
full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
008:022 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 Yahweh in the midst
of the earth.
008:023 I will put a division between my people and your people:
by tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
008:024 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies
into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses:
and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason
of the swarms of flies.
008:025 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to
your God in the land!"
008:026 Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God.
Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and won't they stone us?
008:027 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice
to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."
008:028 Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh
your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away.
Pray for me."
008:029 Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray
to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't
let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people
go to sacrifice to Yahweh."
008:030 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
008:031 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms
of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people.
There remained not one.
008:032 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let
the people go.
009:001 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him,
'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says:
"Let my people go, that they may serve me.
009:002 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
009:003 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock 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.
009:004 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel
and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall nothing die
of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'"
009:005 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall
do this thing in the land."
009:006 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock
of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel,
not one died.
009:007 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of
the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh
was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
009:008 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls
of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward
the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
009:009 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall
be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal,
throughout all the land of Egypt."
009:010 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh;
and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil
breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.
009:011 The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils;
for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.
009:012 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen
to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
009:013 Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh,
the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
009:014 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart,
against your officials, and against your people; that you
may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
009:015 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 earth;
009:016 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 earth;
009:017 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't
let them go.
009:018 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very
grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day
it was founded even until now.
009:019 Now therefore command that all of your livestock 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."'"
009:020 Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh
made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
009:021 Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants
and his livestock in the field.
009:022 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky,
that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man,
and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the
land of Egypt."
009:023 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh
sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth.
Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
009:024 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail,
such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation.
009:025 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt 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.
009:026 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
there was no hail.
009:027 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them,
"I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my
people are wicked.
009:028 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings
and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
009:029 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city,
I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders
shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you
may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
009:030 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet
fear Yahweh God."
009:031 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear,
and the flax was in bloom.
009:032 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had
not grown up.
009:033 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad
his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased,
and the rain was not poured on the earth.
009:034 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart,
he and his servants.
009:035 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children
of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
010:001 Yahweh 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 the midst of them,
010:002 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 Yahweh."
010:003 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him,
"This is what Yahweh, 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.
010:004 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I
will bring locusts into your country,
010:005 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.
010:006 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.
010:007 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare
to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God.
Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
010:008 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said
to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those
who will go?"
010:009 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 Yahweh."
010:010 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go
with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
010:011 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is
what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
010:012 Yahweh 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."
010:013 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,
and Yahweh 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.
010:014 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.
010:015 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.
010:016 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said,
"I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
010:017 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh
your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
010:018 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
010:019 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up
the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
010:020 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let
the children of Israel go.
010:021 Yahweh 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."
010:022 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was
a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
010:023 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.
010:024 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh.
Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind.
Let your little ones also go with you."
010:025 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices
and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
010:026 Our livestock also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof
be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh
our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh,
until we come there."
010:027 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.
010:028 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!"
010:029 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face
again no more."
011:001 Yahweh 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.
011:002 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."
011:003 Yahweh 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.
011:004 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I
will go out into the midst of Egypt,
011:005 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.
011:006 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.
011:007 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 Yahweh makes a distinction between
the Egyptians and Israel.
011:008 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.
011:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
011:010 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children
of Israel go out of his land.
012:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
012:002 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
012:003 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;
012:004 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.
012:005 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.
You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
012:006 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.
012:007 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.
012:008 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire,
and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
012:009 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted
with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
012:010 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
but that which remains of it until the morning you shall
burn with fire.
012:011 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;
and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
012:012 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 Yahweh.
012:013 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.
012:014 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep
it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
012:015 "'Seven days shall you 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.
012:016 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.
012:017 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 shall you observe this day throughout your generations
by an ordinance forever.
012:018 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.
012:019 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.
012:020 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you
shall eat unleavened bread.'"
012:021 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.
012:022 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.
012:023 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when
he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts,
Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer
to come in to your houses to strike you.
012:024 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to
your sons forever.
012:025 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh
will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall
keep this service.
012:026 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean
by this service?'
012:027 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh'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.
012:028 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so they did.
012:029 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh 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.
012:030 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.
012:031 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 Yahweh, as you have said!
012:032 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said,
and be gone; and bless me also!"
012:033 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out
of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
012:034 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
012:035 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.
012:036 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they let them have what they asked.
They despoiled the Egyptians.
012:037 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
012:038 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds,
and even very much livestock.
012:039 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.
012:040 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was
four hundred thirty years.
012:041 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years,
even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh
went out from the land of Egypt.
012:042 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them
out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh,
to be much observed of all the children of Israel
throughout their generations.
012:043 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance
of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
012:044 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you
have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
012:045 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
012:046 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.
012:047 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
012:048 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you,
and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, 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.
012:049 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger