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Exodus 7:8-13:16

Aaron's rod. (Ex.7.8-13)

⁸Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, ⁹'If Pharaoh says to you, 'Display some marvel,' you must say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh, and let it turn into a serpent!' ' ¹⁰Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as Yahweh had ordered. Aaron threw down his staff in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it turned into a serpent. ¹¹Then Pharaoh in his turn called for the sages and sorcerers, and by their spells the magicians of Egypt did the same. ¹²Each threw his staff down and these turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs. ¹³Pharaoh, however, remained obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.

The plagues - blood. (Ex.7.14-25)

¹⁴Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Pharaoh is adamant. He refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵Go to Pharaoh tomorrow morning as he makes his way to the water, confront him on the river bank and in your hand take the staff that turned into a snake. ¹⁶Say to him, 'Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, sent me to say: Let my people go and worship in the desert. Up till now, you have refused to listen. ¹⁷This is what Yahweh says: You will know that I am Yahweh by this: with the staff that is in my hand I shall strike the waters of the River and they will turn to blood. ¹⁸The fish in the river will die, and the River will stink, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink the river water.' ' ¹⁹Yahweh said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals, their marshland, and all their reservoirs—and they will turn to blood. There will be blood throughout the whole of Egypt, even in sticks and stones.' ' ²⁰Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh ordered. He raised his staff and struck the waters of the River, with Pharaoh and his officials looking on, and all the water in the River turned to blood. ²¹The fish in the River died, and the River stank; and the Egyptians could no longer drink the River water. Throughout the whole of Egypt there was blood. ²²But by their spells the magicians of Egypt did the same; Pharaoh remained obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to Moses and Aaron. ²³Pharaoh turned away and went back into his palace, taking no notice even of this. ²⁴And the Egyptians all dug holes along the river-bank in search of drinking water, since they could not drink the River water. ²⁵After Yahweh struck the River, seven days went by. ²⁶Then Yahweh said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Yahweh says this: Let my people go and worship me. ²⁷If you refuse to let them go, I shall strike your whole territory with frogs. ²⁸The River will swarm with frogs; they will make their way into your palace, into your bedroom, onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and subjects, into your ovens, into your kneading bowls. ²⁹The frogs will actually clamber onto you, onto your subjects and onto all your officials.' '

The plagues - frogs. (Ex.8.1-15)

8¹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff, over the rivers, the canals and the marshland, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.' ' ²So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ³But by their spells the magicians did the same, bringing frogs over the land of Egypt. ⁴Pharaoh then summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Entreat Yahweh to take the frogs away from me and my subjects, and I promise to let the people go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' ⁵Moses said to Pharaoh, 'You are the one to gain by it: when would you like me to pray for you, your officials and your subjects, so as to rid you and your houses of the frogs so that they will be left only in the River?' ⁶'Tomorrow,' he said. Moses said, 'It shall be as you say, so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God. ⁷The frogs will leave you, your houses, your officials and your subjects and will be left only in the River.' ⁸Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh's presence, and Moses pleaded with Yahweh about the frogs which he had inflicted on Pharaoh. ⁹Yahweh did as Moses asked, and in house and courtyard and field the frogs died. ¹⁰They piled them up in heaps and the country stank. ¹¹But once Pharaoh saw that there had been a respite, he became obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to them. ¹²Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will turn into mosquitoes throughout the whole of Egypt.' ' ¹³Aaron stretched out his hand, with his staff, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were mosquitoes on man and beast; all the dust of the earth turned into mosquitoes throughout the whole of Egypt. ¹⁴By their spells the magicians tried to produce mosquitoes in the same way but failed, and there were mosquitoes on man and beast. ¹⁵So the magicians said to Pharaoh, 'This is the finger of God.' But Pharaoh was obstinate and, as Yahweh had foretold, refused to listen to them.

The plagues - gnats. (Ex.8.16-19)

¹⁶Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he makes his way to the water. Say to him, 'Yahweh says this: Let my people go and worship me. ¹⁷But if you will not let my people go, I shall send horseflies on you, on your officials, your subjects and your houses. The Egyptians' houses will swarm with horseflies, and so will the very ground they stand on. ¹⁸But I shall exempt the region of Goshen, where my people are living, that day; there will be no horseflies there, so that you will know that I am Yahweh, here in this country. ¹⁹I shall make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.' '

The plagues - flies. (Ex.8.20-32)

²⁰Yahweh did this, and great swarms of horseflies found their way into Pharaoh's palace, into his officials' houses and all over Egypt; the country was ruined by the horseflies. ²¹Pharaoh then summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Go and sacrifice to your God, inside the country.' ²²'That would never do,' Moses said, 'since what we sacrifice to Yahweh our God is outrageous to the Egyptians. If the Egyptians see us offering sacrifices which outrage them, won't they stone us? ²³We shall make a three-days' journey into the desert to sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he has ordered us.' ²⁴Pharaoh said, 'I will let you go and sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert, provided you do not go very far. Pray for me.' ²⁵'The moment I leave you,' Moses said, 'I shall pray to Yahweh. Tomorrow morning the horseflies will leave Pharaoh, his officials and his subjects. But Pharaoh must stop trifling with us by not allowing the people to go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' ²⁶Moses then left Pharaoh's presence and prayed to Yahweh, ²⁷and Yahweh did as Moses asked; the horseflies left Pharaoh, his officials and his subjects; not one remained. ²⁸But Pharaoh became obstinate this time too and did not let the people go.

The plagues - death of the animals. (Ex.9.1-7)

9¹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me. ²If you refuse to let them go and detain them any longer, ³look, the hand of Yahweh will strike your livestock in the fields, horses, donkeys, camels, oxen and flocks with a deadly plague. ⁴Yahweh will discriminate between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt: nothing of what belongs to the Israelites will die. ⁵Yahweh has fixed the time. Tomorrow, he has said, Yahweh will do this in the country.' ' ⁶Next day Yahweh did this: all the Egyptians' livestock died, but nothing of the livestock owned by the Israelites died. ⁷Pharaoh had enquiries made, and found that of the livestock owned by the Israelites not a single beast had died. But Pharaoh was obstinate and did not let the people go.

The plagues - boils. (Ex.9.8-12)

⁸Yahweh then said to Moses and Aaron, 'Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and before Pharaoh's eyes let Moses throw it in the air. ⁹It will turn into fine dust over the whole of Egypt and produce boils breaking into sores on man and beast throughout the whole of Egypt.' ¹⁰So they took soot from the kiln and stood in front of Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and on man and beast it brought out boils breaking into sores. ¹¹And the magicians could not compete with Moses in the matter of the boils, for the magicians were covered with boils like all the other Egyptians. ¹²But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn and, as Yahweh had foretold to Moses, he did not listen to them.

The plagues - hail. (Ex.9.13-35)

¹³Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh. Say to him, 'Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this: Let my people go and worship me. ¹⁴For this time I am going to inflict all my plagues on you, on your officials and on your subjects, so that you will know that there is no one like me in the whole world. ¹⁵Had I stretched out my hand to strike you and your subjects with pestilence, you would have been swept from the earth. ¹⁶But I have let you survive for this reason: to display my power to you and to have my name talked of throughout the world. ¹⁷Since you take a high hand with my people, refusing to let them go, ¹⁸very well, at about this time tomorrow, I shall cause so severe a hail to fall as was never known in Egypt from the day of its foundation until now. ¹⁹So now send word to have your livestock and everything else you own in the fields put under cover. On man or beast, all that happen to be in the fields and are not brought indoors, the hail will fall and they will die.' ' ²⁰Those of Pharaoh's officials who respected what Yahweh said, brought their slaves and livestock indoors, ²¹but those who did not take to heart what Yahweh said left their slaves and livestock in the fields. ²²Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand towards heaven so that it hails throughout the whole of Egypt, on man and beast and on everything growing anywhere in Egypt.' ²³Moses stretched out his staff towards heaven, and Yahweh thundered and rained down hail. Lightning struck the earth and Yahweh rained down hail on Egypt. ²⁴And so there was hail, and lightning accompanied the hail, very severe, such as had never been known anywhere in Egypt since it first became a nation. ²⁵All over Egypt the hail struck down everything in the fields, man and beast, and the hail beat down everything growing in the fields and shattered all the trees in the fields. ²⁶The only place where there was no hail was in the Goshen region, where the Israelites lived. ²⁷Pharaoh then sent for Moses and Aaron and said, 'This time, I have sinned. Yahweh is in the right; I and my subjects are in the wrong. ²⁸Pray to Yahweh, for we cannot bear any more of this thunder and hail. I promise to let you go. You need stay no longer.' ²⁹Moses said to him, 'The moment I leave the city I shall stretch out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to Yahweh. ³⁰But as for you and your officials, I know very well that you still have no respect for Yahweh God.' ³¹The flax and the barley were ruined, since the barley was in the ear and the flax in bud, ³²but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, being late crops. ³³Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He stretched out his hands to Yahweh and the thunder and hail ceased and the rain stopped pouring down on the earth. ³⁴When Pharaoh saw that rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he relapsed into sin, ³⁵and he and his officials became obstinate again. Pharaoh was stubborn and, as Yahweh had foretold through Moses, refused to let the Israelites go.

The plagues - locusts. (Ex.10.1-20)

10¹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his officials stubborn, to display these signs of mine among them; ²so that you can tell your sons and your grandsons how I made fools of the Egyptians and what signs I performed among them, so that you would know that I am Yahweh.' ³Moses and Aaron then went to Pharaoh and said to him, 'Yahweh, God of the Hebrews, says this, 'How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go and worship me. ⁴Or, if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I shall send locusts into your country. ⁵They will cover the surface of the soil so that the soil cannot be seen. They will devour the remainder of what has escaped, of what you have been left after the hail; they will devour all your trees growing in the fields; ⁶they will fill your houses, all your officials' houses and all the Egyptians' houses—something your ancestors and your ancestors' ancestors have never seen from the day they first appeared on earth until now.' ' Then he turned on his heel and left Pharaoh's presence. ⁷At which, Pharaoh's officials said to him, 'How much longer are we to be tricked by this fellow? Let the people go and worship Yahweh their God. Do you not finally realise that Egypt is on the brink of ruin?' ⁸So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh who said to them, 'Go and worship Yahweh your God. But who are to go?' ⁹Moses replied, 'We shall take our young men and our old men, we shall take our sons and daughters, our flocks and our herds, since we are going to hold a feast in Yahweh's honour.' ¹⁰Pharaoh said, 'So I must let you go with your wives and children! May Yahweh preserve you! Plainly, you are up to no good! ¹¹Oh no! You men may go and worship Yahweh, since that was your original request.' With that, they were driven from Pharaoh's presence. ¹²Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand over Egypt for the locusts. Let them invade Egypt and devour whatever is growing in the country, whatever the hail has left!' ¹³Moses stretched his staff over Egypt, and over the country Yahweh sent an east wind which blew all that day and night. By morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. ¹⁴The locusts invaded the whole of Egypt and settled all over Egypt, in great swarms; never had there been so many locusts before, nor would there be again. ¹⁵They covered the surface of the ground till the land was devastated. They devoured whatever was growing in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. No green was left on tree or plant in the fields anywhere in Egypt. ¹⁶Pharaoh sent urgently for Moses and Aaron and said, 'I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you. ¹⁷Now forgive my sin, I implore you, just this once, and entreat Yahweh your God to turn this deadly thing away from me.' ¹⁸When Moses left Pharaoh's presence he prayed to Yahweh, ¹⁹and Yahweh changed the wind into a west wind, very strong, which carried the locusts away and swept them into the Sea of Reeds. There was not one locust left in the whole of Egypt. ²⁰But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites go.

The plagues - darkness. (Ex.10.21-29)

²¹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand towards heaven, and let darkness, darkness so thick that it can be felt, cover Egypt.' ²²So Moses stretched out his hand towards heaven, and for three days there was thick darkness over the whole of Egypt. ²³No one could see anyone else or move about for three days, but all the Israelites did have light where they were living. ²⁴Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, 'Go and worship Yahweh, but your flocks and herds are to stay here. Your wives and children can go with you too.' ²⁵Moses said, 'But now you must give us sacrifices and burnt offerings to offer to Yahweh our God. ²⁶And our livestock will go with us too; not a hoof will be left behind; for we may need animals from these to worship Yahweh our God; for until we get there we ourselves cannot tell how we are to worship Yahweh.' ²⁷But Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he refused to let them go. ²⁸Pharaoh said to Moses, 'Out of my sight! Be sure you never see my face again, for the next time you see my face you die!' ²⁹Moses then said, 'You yourself have said it. I shall never see your face again.'

Moses announces the death of the firstborn. (Ex.11.1-10)

11¹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I shall inflict one more plague on Pharaoh and Egypt, after which he will let you go away. When he lets you go, he will actually drive you out! ²Now instruct the people that every man is to ask his neighbour, and every woman hers, for silver and golden jewellery.' ³And Yahweh made the Egyptians impressed with the people, while Moses himself was a man of great importance in Egypt in the opinion of Pharaoh's officials and the people. ⁴Moses then said, 'Yahweh says this, 'At midnight I shall pass through Egypt, ⁵and all the first-born in Egypt will die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl at the mill, and all the first-born of the livestock. ⁶And throughout Egypt there will be great wailing, such as never was before, nor will be again. ⁷But against the Israelites, whether man or beast, never a dog shall bark, so that you may know that Yahweh discriminates between Egypt and Israel. ⁸Then all these officials of yours will come down to me and, bowing low before me, say: Go away, you and all the people who follow you! After which, I shall go.' ' And, hot with anger, he left Pharaoh's presence. ⁹Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that more of my wonders may be displayed in Egypt.' ¹⁰Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.

THE PASSOVER. (Ex.12.1-14)

12¹Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, ²'This month must be the first of all the months for you, the first month of your year. ³Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, 'On the tenth day of this month each man must take an animal from the flock for his family: one animal for each household. ⁴If the household is too small for the animal, he must join with his neighbour nearest to his house, depending on the number of persons. When you choose the animal, you will take into account what each can eat. ⁵It must be an animal without blemish, a male one year old; you may choose it either from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶You must keep it till the fourteenth day of the month when the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight. ⁷Some of the blood must then be taken and put on both door-posts and the lintel of the houses where it is eaten. ⁸That night, the flesh must be eaten, roasted over the fire; it must be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ⁹Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with the head, feet and entrails. ¹⁰You must not leave any of it over till the morning: whatever is left till morning you must burn. ¹¹This is how you must eat it: with a belt round your waist, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly: it is a Passover in Yahweh's honour. ¹²That night, I shall go through Egypt and strike down all the first-born in Egypt, man and beast alike, and shall execute justice on all the gods of Egypt, I, Yahweh! ¹³The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood I shall pass over you, and you will escape the destructive plague when I strike Egypt.

THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. (Ex.12.14-20)

¹⁴This day must be commemorated by you, and you must keep it as a feast in Yahweh's honour. You must keep it as a feast-day for all generations; this is a decree for all time. ¹⁵'For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you must clean the leaven out of your houses, for anyone who eats leavened bread from the first to the seventh day must be outlawed from Israel. ¹⁶On the first day you must hold a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day a sacred assembly. On those days no work may be done; you will prepare only what each requires to eat. ¹⁷You must keep the feast of Unleavened Bread because it was on that same day that I brought your armies out of Egypt. You will keep that day, generation after generation; this is a decree for all time. ¹⁸In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you must eat unleavened bread. ¹⁹For seven days there may be no leaven in your houses, since anyone, either stranger or citizen of the country, who eats leavened bread will be outlawed from the community of Israel. ²⁰You will eat nothing with leaven in it; wherever you live, you will eat unleavened bread.' '

The first Passover. (Ex.12.21-28)

²¹Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, 'Go and choose a lamb or kid for your families, and kill the Passover victim. ²²Then take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and with the blood from the basin touch the lintel and both door-posts; then let none of you venture out of the house till morning. ²³Then, when Yahweh goes through Egypt to strike it, and sees the blood on the lintel and on both door-posts, he will pass over the door and not allow the Destroyer to enter your homes and strike. ²⁴You will observe this as a decree binding you and your children for all time, ²⁵and when you have entered the country which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, you will observe this ritual. ²⁶And when your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?' ²⁷you will tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice in honour of Yahweh who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, and struck Egypt but spared our houses.' ' And the people bowed in worship. ²⁸The Israelites then went away and did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron.

The death of the firstborn. (Ex.12.29-36)

²⁹And at midnight Yahweh struck down all the first-born in Egypt from the first-born of Pharaoh, heir to his throne, to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, and the first-born of all the livestock. ³⁰Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up in the night, and there was great wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead. ³¹It was still dark when Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 'Up, leave my subjects, you and the Israelites! Go and worship Yahweh as you have asked! ³²And take your flocks and herds as you have asked, and go! And bless me too!' ³³The Egyptians urged the people on and hurried them out of the country because, they said, 'Otherwise we shall all be dead.' ³⁴So the people carried off their dough still unleavened, their bowls wrapped in their cloaks, on their shoulders. ³⁵The Israelites did as Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for silver and golden jewellery, and clothing. ³⁶Yahweh made the Egyptians so much impressed with the people that they gave them what they asked. So they despoiled the Egyptians.

THE EXODUS. (Ex.12.37-42)

³⁷The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march-men, that is, not counting their families. ³⁸A mixed crowd of people went with them, and flocks and herds, quantities of livestock. ³⁹And with the dough which they had brought from Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, because the dough had not risen, since they had been driven out of Egypt without time to linger or to prepare food for themselves. ⁴⁰The time that the Israelites spent in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹And on the very day the four hundred and thirty years ended, all Yahweh's armies left Egypt. ⁴²The night when Yahweh kept vigil to bring them out of Egypt must be kept as a vigil in honour of Yahweh by all Israelites, for all generations.

How the Passover should be celebrated. (Ex.12.43-51)

⁴³Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, 'This is the ritual for the Passover: no alien may eat it, ⁴⁴but any slave bought for money may eat it, once you have circumcised him. ⁴⁵No stranger and no hired servant may eat it. ⁴⁶It must be eaten in one house alone; you will not take any of the meat out of the house; nor may you break any of its bones. ⁴⁷'The whole community of Israel must keep it. ⁴⁸Should a stranger residing with you wish to keep the Passover in honour of Yahweh, all the males of his household must be circumcised: he will then be allowed to keep it and will count as a citizen of the country. But no uncircumcised person may eat it. ⁴⁹The same law will apply to the citizen and the stranger resident among you.' ⁵⁰The Israelites all did as Yahweh had ordered Moses and Aaron, ⁵¹and that same day Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt in their armies.

Dedication of the firstborn. (Ex.13.1-2)

13¹Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, ²'Consecrate all the first-born to me, the first birth from every womb, among the Israelites. Whether man or beast, it is mine.'

The feast of Unleavened Bread. (Ex.13.3-10)

³Moses said to the people, 'Remember this day, on which you came out of Egypt, from the place of slave-labour, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought you out of it; no leavened bread may be eaten. ⁴On this day, in the month of Abib, you are leaving, ⁵and when Yahweh has brought you into the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, flowing with milk and honey, which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, then you must observe this rite in the same month. ⁶For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there must be a feast in Yahweh's honour. ⁷During these seven days unleavened bread may be eaten; no leavened bread may be seen among you, no leaven among you throughout your territory. ⁸And on that day you will explain to your son, 'This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.' ⁹This will serve as a sign on your hand would serve, or a reminder on your forehead, and in that way the law of Yahweh will be ever on your lips: for with a mighty hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt. ¹⁰You shall observe this law at its appointed time, year by year.

The firstborn offering. (Ex.13.11-22)

¹¹'When Yahweh has brought you into the Canaanites' country, as he swore to you and your ancestors that he would, and given it to you, ¹²to Yahweh you must make over whatever first issues from the womb, and every first-born cast by animals belonging to you: these males belong to Yahweh. ¹³But every first-born donkey you will redeem with a lamb or kid; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. All the human first-born, however, among your sons, you will redeem. ¹⁴And when your son asks you in days to come, 'What does this mean?' you will tell him, 'By the strength of his hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour. ¹⁵When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the first-born in Egypt, of man and beast alike. This is why I sacrifice every male first issuing from the womb to Yahweh and redeem every first-born of my sons.' ¹⁶This will serve as a sign on your hand would serve, or a headband on your forehead, for by the strength of his hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.'