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<h1>Exodus</h1>
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Exodus 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>These are the names of the children of Israel, that went
into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his
household:</span></li>
<li><span>Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,</span></li>
<li><span>Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,</span></li>
<li><span>Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were
seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that
generation,</span></li>
<li><span>The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into
multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the
land.</span></li>
<li><span>In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that
knew not Joseph:</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to his people: Behold the people of the
children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.</span></li>
<li><span>Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and
if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having
overcome us, depart out of the land.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to
afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of
tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.</span></li>
<li><span>But the more they oppressed them, the more they were
multiplied, and increased:</span></li>
<li><span>And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and
afflicted them and mocked them:</span></li>
<li><span>And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay,
and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were
overcharged in the works of the earth.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the
Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other
Phua,</span></li>
<li><span>Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives
to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a
man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.</span></li>
<li><span>But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king
of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king called for them and said: What is that you
meant to do, that you would save the men children ?</span></li>
<li><span>They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian
women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife;
and they are delivered before we come to them.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the
people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.</span></li>
<li><span>And because the midwives feared God, he built them
houses.</span></li>
<li><span>Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying:
Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the
river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.</span></li>
</ol>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Exodus 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and
took a wife of his own kindred.</span></li>
<li><span>And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a
goodly child hid him three months.</span></li>
<li><span>And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket
made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the
little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's
brink,</span></li>
<li><span>His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what
would be done.</span></li>
<li><span>And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash
herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink.
And when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her
maids for it: and when it was brought,</span></li>
<li><span>She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying,
having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the
Hebrews.</span></li>
<li><span>And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to
thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe ?</span></li>
<li><span>She answered: Go. The maid went and called her
mother.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao's daughter said to her. Take this child and
nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and
nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to
Pharao's daughter.</span></li>
<li><span>And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses,
saying: Because I took him out of the water.</span></li>
<li><span>In those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to
his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking
one of the Hebrews his brethren.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had looked about this way and that way, and
saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the
sand.</span></li>
<li><span>And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews
quarreling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest
thou thy neighbour?</span></li>
<li><span>But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge
over us: wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the
Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known
?</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses:
but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he
sat down by a well.</span></li>
<li><span>And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to
draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water
their father's flocks.</span></li>
<li><span>And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses
arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to
them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?</span></li>
<li><span>They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands
of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the
sheep to drink.</span></li>
<li><span>But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go?
call him that he may eat bread.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took
Sephora his daughter to wife:</span></li>
<li><span>And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I
have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another,
whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper
hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.</span></li>
<li><span>Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the
children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and
their cry went up unto God from the works.</span></li>
<li><span>And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant
which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he
knew them.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Exodus 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro his father in law, the
priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the
desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of
the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was
not burnt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said: I will go and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he
called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moses, Moses.
And he answered: Here I am.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from
thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his
face: for he durst not look at God.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of
my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the
rigour of them that are over the works:</span></li>
<li><span>And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them
out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that
land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with
milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and
Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.</span></li>
<li><span>For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me:
and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by
the Egyptians.</span></li>
<li><span>But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst
bring forth my people, the children of Israel out of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to
Pharao, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to him: I will be with thee: and this thou
shalt have for a sign, that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have
brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God
upon this mountain.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of
Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to
you. If they should say to me: What is his name? what shall I say
to them?</span></li>
<li><span>God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou
say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to
you.</span></li>
<li><span>And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the
children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to
you: This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations.</span></li>
<li><span>Go, gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou
shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to
me, saying: Visiting I have visited you: and I have seen all that
hath befallen you in Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the
affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, the Hethite,
and the Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a
land that floweth with milk and honey.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall hear thy voice: and thou shalt go in, thou
and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt
say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us: we will go
three days' journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord
our God.</span></li>
<li><span>But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go,
but by a mighty hand.</span></li>
<li><span>For I will stretch forth my hand and will strike Egypt
with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after
these he will let you go.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of
the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart
empty:</span></li>
<li><span>But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her
that is in her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment:
and you shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil
Egypt.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">Exodus 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor
hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy
hand? He answered: A rod.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast
it down, and it was turned into a serpent: so that Moses fled from
it.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the
tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned
into a rod.</span></li>
<li><span>That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, hath appeared to thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And
when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as
snow.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it
back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other
flesh.</span></li>
<li><span>If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the
voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter
sign.</span></li>
<li><span>But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor
hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the
dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river shall be
turned into blood.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from
yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy
servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made
the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not
I?</span></li>
<li><span>Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach
thee what thou shalt speak.</span></li>
<li><span>But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt
send.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is
thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to
meet thee, and seeing thee shall be glad at heart.</span></li>
<li><span>Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will
be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must
do.</span></li>
<li><span>He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be
thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to
God.</span></li>
<li><span>And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do
the signs.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in
law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into
Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him:
Go in peace.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return
into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them
upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in
his hand.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt:
See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in
thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people
go.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is
my son, my firstborn.</span></li>
<li><span>I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me,
and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy
firstborn.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met
him, and would have killed him.</span></li>
<li><span>Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and
circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and
said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.</span></li>
<li><span>And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art
thou to me, because of the circumcision.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet
Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and
kissed him.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which
he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And they came together, and they assembled all the
ancients of the children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to
Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people,</span></li>
<li><span>And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had
visited the children of Israel: and that he had looked upon their
affliction: and falling down they adored.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">Exodus 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>After these things Moses and Aaron went in, and said to
Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go that
they may sacrifice to me in the desert.</span></li>
<li><span>But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his
voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let
Israel go.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to
go three days' journey into the wilderness and to sacrifice to the
Lord our God: lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon
us.</span></li>
<li><span>The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and
Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your
burdens.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao said: The people of the land is numerous: you
see that the multitude is increased: how much more if you give them
rest from their works?</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the
works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:</span></li>
<li><span>You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick,
as before: but let them go and gather straw.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which
they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: for
they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and
sacrifice to our God.</span></li>
<li><span>Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill
them: that they may not regard lying words.</span></li>
<li><span>And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went
out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no
straw:</span></li>
<li><span>Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall
any thing of your work be diminished.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people was scattered through all the land of
Egypt to gather straw.</span></li>
<li><span>And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying:
Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do when
straw was given you.</span></li>
<li><span>And they that were over the works of the children of
Israel were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you
not made up the task of bricks both yesterday and to day as
before?</span></li>
<li><span>And the officers of the children of Israel came, and
cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy
servants?</span></li>
<li><span>Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as
before: behold we thy servants are beaten with whips, and thy
people is unjustly dealt withal.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us
go and sacrifice to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Go therefore, and work: straw shall not be given you, and
you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.</span></li>
<li><span>And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they
were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a
whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.</span></li>
<li><span>And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them
as they came out from Pharao:</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because
you have made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants,
and you have given him a sword to kill us.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast
thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent
me?</span></li>
<li><span>For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in
thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered
them.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">Exodus 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I
will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and
with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the
Lord,</span></li>
<li><span>That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty; and my name ADONAI I did not shew
them.</span></li>
<li><span>And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of
Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were
strangers.</span></li>
<li><span>I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered
my covenant.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord
who will bring you out from the work prison of the Egyptians, and
will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and
great judgments.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be
your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God who
brought you out from the work prison of the Egyptians.</span></li>
<li><span>And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted
up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and I will give
it you to possess, I am the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but
they did not hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most
painful work.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying</span></li>
<li><span>Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses answered before the Lord Behold the children of
Israel do no hearken to me; and how will Pharao hear me, especially
as I am of uncircumcised lips?</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a
charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of
Egypt, that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>These are the heads of their house by their families. The
sons of Rubel the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron
and Charmi.</span></li>
<li><span>These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon:
Jamuel, and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son
of a chanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.</span></li>
<li><span>And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their
kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life
of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their
kindreds.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and EIebron, and
Oziel. And the years of Caath's life were a hundred and
thirty-three.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the
kindreds of Levi by their families.</span></li>
<li><span>And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father's
side: and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's
life were a hundred and thirty-seven.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and
Zechri.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and
Sethri.</span></li>
<li><span>And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of
Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and
Eleazar, and Ithamar.</span></li>
<li><span>The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph.
These are the kindreds of the Corites.</span></li>
<li><span>But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters
of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the
Levitical families by their kindreds.</span></li>
<li><span>These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to
bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by
their companies.</span></li>
<li><span>These are they that speak to Pharao king of Egypt, in
order to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are
that Moses and Aaron</span></li>
<li><span>In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord: speak
thou to Pharao king of Egypt all that I say to thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised
lips, how will Pharao hear me?</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">Exodus 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I have appointed thee
the God of Pharao: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy
prophet.</span></li>
<li><span>Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he
shall speak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of
his land.</span></li>
<li><span>But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs
and wonders in the land of Egypt,</span></li>
<li><span>And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon
Egypt, and will bring forth my army and my people the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt, by very great
judgments.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have
stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the
children of Israel out of the midst of them.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: so did
they.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three,
when they spoke to Pharao.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:</span></li>
<li><span>When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs: thou shalt say
to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it
shall be turned into a serpent.</span></li>
<li><span>So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the
Lord had commanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao, and his
servants, and it was turned into a serpent.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians: and
they also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets did in like
manner.</span></li>
<li><span>And they every one cast down their rods, and they were
turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their
rods.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken
to them, as the Lord had commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened,
he will not let the people go.</span></li>
<li><span>Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the
waters: and thou shalt stand to meet him on the bank of the river:
and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a
serpent.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews
sent me to thee saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the
desert: and hitherto thou wouldst not hear.</span></li>
<li><span>Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know
that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rods that is in
my hand, the water of the river, and it shall be turned into
blood.</span></li>
<li><span>And the fishes that are in the river shall die, and the
waters shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted
when they drink the water of the river.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their
rivers, and streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that
they may be turned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of
Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and
lifting up the rod he struck the water of the river before Pharao
and his servants: and it was turned into blood.</span></li>
<li><span>And the fishes that were in the river died: and the river
corrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the
river, and there was blood in all the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the magicians of the Egyptians with their
enchantments did in like manner: and Pharao's heart was hardened,
neither did he hear them, as the Lord had commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And he turned himself away and went into his house,
neither did he set his heart to it this time also.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water
to drink: for they could not drink of the water of the
river.</span></li>
<li><span>And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord
struck the river.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">Exodus 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou
shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to
sacrifice to me.</span></li>
<li><span>But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all
thy coasts with frogs.</span></li>
<li><span>And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs:
which shall come up, and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber,
and upon thy bed, and in the houses of thy servants, and to thy
people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy
meats;</span></li>
<li><span>And the frogs shall come in to thee and to thy people,
and to all thy servants.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth
thy hand upon the streams and upon the rivers and the pools, and
bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of
Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the magicians also by their enchantments did in like
manner, and the brought forth frogs upon all the land of
Egypt</span></li>
<li><span>But Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said to them: Pray
ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people;
and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray
for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs
may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy
servants, and from thy people: and may remain only in the
river.</span></li>
<li><span>And he answered: Tomorrow. But he said: I will do
according to thy word; that thou mayst know that there is none like
to the Lord our God.</span></li>
<li><span>And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house,
and from thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only
in the river.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses
cried to the Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao
concerning the frogs.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the
frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of
the fields:</span></li>
<li><span>And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and
the land was corrupted.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own
heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had
commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth
thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth: and may there be
sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand,
holding the rod: and he struck the dust of the earth, and there
came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was
turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the magicians with their enchantments practiced in
like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not and there
were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.</span></li>
<li><span>And the magicians said to Pharao This is the finger of
God. And Pharao heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them,
as the Lord had commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand
before Pharao: for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt
say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to
me.</span></li>
<li><span>But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in
upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses all kind of
flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies
of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall
be.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is,
wonderful in that lay, so that flies shall not be there: and thou
shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the
earth.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will put a division between my people and thy
people: tomorrow shall this sign be.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm
of flies into he houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all
the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of
flies.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go,
and sacrifice to your God in this land.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice
the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we
kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence,
they will stone us.</span></li>
<li><span>We will go three days' journey into the wilderness: and
we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded
us.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the
Lord your God in the wilderness: but go no farther: pray for
me.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to
the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his
servants, and from his people tomorrow: but do not deceive any
more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And he did according to his word: and he took away the
flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people:
there was not left so much as one.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this
time would he let the people go.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">Exodus 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to
him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to
sacrifice to me.</span></li>
<li><span>But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:</span></li>
<li><span>Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields: and a very
grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen,
and sheep.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the
possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that
nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the
children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord appointed a time, saying: Tomorrow will the
Lord do this thing in the land.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all
the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children
of Israel there died not one.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao sent to see: and there was not any thing dead
of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened,
and he did not let the people go.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you
handfuls of ashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in
the air in the presence of Pharao.</span></li>
<li><span>And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there
shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts in the
whole land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before
Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it in the air: and there came boils
with swelling blains in men and beasts.</span></li>
<li><span>Neither could the magicians stand before Moses for the
boils that were upon them, and in all the land of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened
not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and
stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord
the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to
me.</span></li>
<li><span>For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy
heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: that thou mayst
know there is none like me in all the earth.</span></li>
<li><span>For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and
thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the
earth.</span></li>
<li><span>And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my
power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the
earth.</span></li>
<li><span>Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let
them go?</span></li>
<li><span>Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same
hour, an exceeding great hail: such as hath not been in Egypt from
the day that it was founded, until this present time.</span></li>
<li><span>Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy
cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: for men and beasts,
and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered
together out of the fields, which the hail shall fall upon, shall
die.</span></li>
<li><span>He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's
servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into
houses:</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand
towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt,
upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the
land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the
Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning running along the ground:
and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the hail and fire mixed with it drove on together:
and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the
whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.</span></li>
<li><span>And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all
things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail
smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the
country.</span></li>
<li><span>Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel
were, the hail fell not.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to
them: I have sinned this time also; the Lord is just: I and my
people are wicked.</span></li>
<li><span>Pray ye to the Lord, that the thunderings of God and the
hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that you may stay here
no longer.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will
stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease,
and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth
is the Lord's.</span></li>
<li><span>But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet
fear the Lord God.</span></li>
<li><span>The flax therefore and the barley were hurt, because the
barley was green, and the flax was now boiled:</span></li>
<li><span>But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt,
because they were lateward.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he
stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the
hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the
earth.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao seeing that the rain and the hail, and the
thunders were ceased, increased his sin.</span></li>
<li><span>And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his
servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the
children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of
Moses.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">Exodus 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work
these my signs in him.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou mayest tell in the ears of thy sons, and of they
grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my
signs amongst them: and you may know that I am the
Lord:</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to
him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou
to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.</span></li>
<li><span>But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I
will bring in to morrow the locust into thy coasts:</span></li>
<li><span>To cover the face of the earth that nothing thereof may
appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they
shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the
fields.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy
servants, and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers
have not seen, nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first
upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away,
and went forth from Pharao.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we
endure this scandal? let the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their
God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?</span></li>
<li><span>And they called back Moses and Aaron to Pharao: and he
said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that
shall go?</span></li>
<li><span>Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our
sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the
solemnity of the Lord our God.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall
let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend
some great evil?</span></li>
<li><span>It shall not be so: but go ye men only, and sacrifice to
the Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they
were cast out from Pharao's presence.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon
the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it may come upon it, and
devour every herb that is left after the hail.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt:
and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night: and
when it was morning, the burning wind raised the
locusts:</span></li>
<li><span>And they came up over the whole land of Egypt: and rested
in all the coasts of the Egyptians innumerable, the like as had not
been before that time, nor shall be hereafter.</span></li>
<li><span>And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all
things. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits
soever were on the trees, which the hail had left: and there
remained not any thing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs
of the earth in all Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and
said to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against
you.</span></li>
<li><span>But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the
Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed
to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and
it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained
not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let
the children of Israel go.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out they hand towards
heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick
that it may be felt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses stretch forth his hand towards heaven: and
there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three
days.</span></li>
<li><span>No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the
place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt
there was light.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go
sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain; let
your children go with you.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, to the Lord our God.</span></li>
<li><span>All the flocks shall go with us: there shall not a hoof
remain of them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord
our God: especially as we know not what must be offered, till we
come to the very place.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not
let them go.</span></li>
<li><span>And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware
thou see not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come
in my sight, thou shalt die.</span></li>
<li><span>Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I
will not see thy face any more.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="11">Exodus 11</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I
bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go and
thrust you out.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore thou shalt tell all the people that every man
ask of his friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of
silver, and of gold.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight
of the Egyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of
Egypt, in the sight of Pharao's servants, and of all the
people.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Thus said the Lord: At midnight I will enter
into Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall
die, from the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even
to the first born of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the
firstborn of beasts.</span></li>
<li><span>And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt,
such as neither hath been before, nor shall be
hereafter.</span></li>
<li><span>But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog
make the least noise, from man even to beast: that you may know how
wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and
shall worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is
under thee: after that we will go out.</span></li>
<li><span>And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord
said to Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be
done in the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written,
before Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he
let the children of Israel go out of his land.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="12">Exodus 12</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt:</span></li>
<li><span>This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it
shall be the first in the months of the year.</span></li>
<li><span>Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel,
and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take
a lamb by their families and houses.</span></li>
<li><span>But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the
lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his
house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat
the lamb.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one
year: according to which rite also you shall take a
kid.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this
month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall
sacrifice it in the evening.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon
both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the
fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.</span></li>
<li><span>You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in
water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with
the feet and entrails thereof.</span></li>
<li><span>Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning.
If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with
fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and
you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands,
and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the
Passage) of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and
will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and beast:
and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses
where you shall be: and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over
you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I
shall strike the land of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And this day shall be for a memorial to you: and you
shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations with an
everlasting observance.</span></li>
<li><span>Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first
day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat
any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that
soul shall perish out of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh
day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in
them, except those things that belong to eating.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread:
for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land
of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a
perpetual observance.</span></li>
<li><span>The first month, the fourteenth day of the month in the
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the same month in the evening.</span></li>
<li><span>Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your
houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out
of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the
land.</span></li>
<li><span>You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your
habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.</span></li>
<li><span>And Moses called all the ancients of the children of
Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and
sacrifice the Phase.</span></li>
<li><span>And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the
door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the
door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till
morning.</span></li>
<li><span>For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians:
and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the
posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the
destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.</span></li>
<li><span>Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy
children for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And when you have entered into the land which the Lord
will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these
ceremonies.</span></li>
<li><span>And when your children shall say to you: What is the
meaning of this service?</span></li>
<li><span>You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of