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EXODUS.

that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

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9 And Moses said, We will go with our with our daughters, with our flocks and with young and with our old, with our sons and our herds will we go: for we must hold s feast unto the LORD.

29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as 10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more so with you, as I will let you go, and your 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and hail; that thou mayest know how that the little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. earth is the LORD'S. they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And 121 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch locusts, that they may come up upon the land out thine hand over the land of Egyp: for the even all that the bail hath left. of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land ̧

30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

31 And the flax and the barley was smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

32 But the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up.

33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the

earth.

34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders, were ceased, Le sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and east wind brought the locusts. all that night; and when it was morning, the

14 And the focusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of them there were no such locusts as they, nei Egypt: very grievous were they; before 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was harden-ther after them shall be such. ed, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

CHAP. X.

15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all

AND the LORD said unto Moses, Go in the fruit of the trees which the hail had left

unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that might shew these my signs before him :

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of
thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I
have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which
I have done among them; that ye may know
how that I am the LORD.

3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto
Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt
thou refuse to humble thyself before me
Let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go,
ehold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts
into thy coast:

and there remained not any green thing in
all the land of Egypt.
the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through

16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my against the LORD your God, and against you sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me thi. death only.

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the focusts, and not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. cast them into the Red Sea; there remained 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the heart, so that he would not let the children of earth and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field.

Israel go.

21 And the LORD said unto Moses there may be darkness over the land of Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, thas And Moses stretched forth his hand to 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, ward heaven; and there was a thick darknor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since theness in all the land of Egypt three days. day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out

from Pharaoh.

7¶ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him,
How long shall this man be a snare unto us?
Let the men go, that they may serve the
LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that
Egypt is destroyed?

And Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh : and he said unto them,
Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are
they that shall go?

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23 They saw not one another, neither rose children of Israel had light in their dwellings. any from his place for three days: but all the

24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.

25 And Moses said, Thou must give us al so sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there Ishall not an hoof be left behind: for thereof

must we take to serve the LORD our God; lamb. let him and his neighbow next uma and we know not with what we must serve his house take it, according to the number the LORD until we come thither. of the souls: every man, according to his

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's eating, shall make your count for the lainh

heart, and he would not let them go.

28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well I will see thy face again no more. : CHAP. XI.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

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6 And ye shall keep it up until the four teenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and

AND the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will strike it on the two side-posts, and on the

I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, upper door-post of the houses wherein they and voon Egypt; afterwards lie will let you shall eat it. go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, surely thrust you out hence altogether. roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, with bitter herbs they shall eat it. and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

3 And the LORD gave the people favour 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.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire, 111 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your fee', and 4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, your staff in your hand and ye shall eat it About midnight will I go out into the midst in haste; it is the LORD's passover. of Egypt: 12 For I will pass through the land of

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5 And all the first-born ia the land of Egypt Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstshall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that born in the land of Egypt, both man and sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-heast; and against all the gods of Egypt 1 born of the maid-servant that is behind the will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

mill;
6 And there shall be a great cry through-
out all the land of Egypt, such as there was
none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

and all the first-born of beasts.

7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 8 And all these thy servants shall come 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened down unto me, and bow down themselves bread; even the first day ye shall put away unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the leaven out of your houses: for whosoever people that follow thee: and after that I will eateth leavened bread, from the first day ungo out. And he went out from Pharaoh intil the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

a great anger.

9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

16 And in the first day there shall be an loly convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; roman. ner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that orly may be

10 And Moses and Aaron did all these won
ders before Pharaoh:: and the LORD hardendone of you.
ed Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let
he children of Israel go out of his land.
CHAP. XII.

AND the LORD spa of Egypt, saying,
ND the LORD spake unto Moses and

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land o Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 2 This month shall be unto you the begin- 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth ning of months: it shall be the first month of day of the month at even, ye shall eat un the year to you. leavened bread, until the one and twentieth

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of day of the month at even. Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven they shall take to them every man a lamb, found in your houses: for whosoever eateth according to the house of their fathers, a that which is leavened, even that soul shall lamb for an house. be cut off from the congregation of Israel, And if the household be too little for the whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

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9 And 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 unto the LORD.

10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be

29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more so with you, as I will let you go, and your hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.

30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

31 And the flax and the barley was smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

32 But the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up.

33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

31 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain. and the hail, and the thunders, were ceased, Le sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

11 Not so go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 121 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egyp: for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 And the focusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, nei35 And the heart of Pharaoh was harden-ther after them shall be such. ed, neither would he let the child en of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

CHAP. X.

ND the LORD said unto Moses, Go in

AND untve vardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that might shew these my signs before him:

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, ehold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field.

15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and al the fruit of the trees which the hail had left

and there remained not any green thing the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you

17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me thi. death only.

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the focusts, and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel

21 And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, thas there may be darkness over the land of 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. houses of all thy servants, and the houses of And Moses stretched forth his hand toall the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, ward heaven; and there was a thick darknor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since theness in all the land of Egypt three days. day that they were upon the earth unto this 23 They saw not one another, neither rose day. And he turned himself, and went out any from his place for three days: but all the from Pharaoh. children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

71 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh : and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?

21 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go with you

25 And Moses said, Thou must give us al so sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there Ishall not an hoof be left behind: for thereof

must we take to serve the Lord our God; lamb. let him and his neighbom next uma and we know not with what we must serve his house take it, according to the number the LORD until we come thither. of the souls: every man, according to his

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's eating, shall make your count for the land

heart, and he would not let them go.

28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more for in that day thou seest my face. thou shalt die.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

6 And ye shall keep it up until the four teenth day of the same month and the 29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken whole assembly of the congregation of Israel weil I will see thy face again no more. shall kill it in the evening.

CHAP. XI.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and

ND the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will strike it on the two side-posts, and on the

Pharao, upper post of wherein they

and vpon Egypt; afterwards he will let you shall eat it. go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, surely thrust you out hence altogether. roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

3 And the LORD gave the people favour in 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the until the morning; and that which remaineth man Moses was very great in the land of of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. Egypt. in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, And in the sight of the people.

4¶ And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:

11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your fee', and your staff in your hand and ye shall eat it in haste; it is the LORD's passover.

12 For I will pass through the land of 5 And all the first-born in the land of Egypt Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstshall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that born in the land of Egypt, both man and sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-heast; and against all the gods of Egypt I born of the maid-servant that is behind the will execute judgment: I am the LORD. mill; and all the first-born of beasts.

13 And the blood shall be to you for a

6 And there shall be a great cry through-token upon the houses where ye are: and out all the land of Egypt, such as there was when I see the blood, I will pass over you, Bone like it, nor shall be like it any more. and the plague shall not be upon you to de7 But against any of the children of Israel stroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 8 And all these thy servants shall coine 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened nown unto me, and bow down themselves bread; even the first day ye shall put away unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the leaven out of your houses for whosoever people that follow thee: and after that I will eateth leavened bread, from the first day ungo out. And he went out from Pharaoh intil the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off a great anger. from Israel.

9% And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

16 And in the first day there shall be an Loly convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; roman ner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that orly may be

10 And Moses and Aaron did all these won ders before Pharaoh : and the LORD hardendone of you. ed Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let he children of Israel go out of his land. CHAP. XII.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses and

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unlea vened bread; for ir this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land o Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, your generations by an ordinance for ever. 2 This month shall be unto you the begin- 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth ning of months: it shall be the first month of day of the month at even, ye shall eat un the year to you. leavened bread, until the one and twentieth

31 Speak ye unto all the congregation of day of the month at even. Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven they shall take to them every man a lamb, found in your houses: for whosoever eateth according to the house of their fathers, a that which is leavened, even that soul shall lamb for an house. be cut off from the congregation of Israel,

4 And if the household be too littie for the whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

EXODUS.

thousand on foot that were men, besides chit

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your from Rameses te Succoth, about six hundred Gabitatious shall ye eat unleavened bread.

21 Then Moses called for all the elders dren. of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb, according to your families, and kill the passover.

til the morning.

much cattle.

38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks and herds, even very 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and the dough which they brought forth out of strike the lintel and the two side-posts with Egypt, for it was not leavened; because the blood that is in the bason; and none of they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not go out at the door of his house un-tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. you shall 40 Now the sojourning of the children of 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hun41 And it came to pass, at the end of the upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the dred and thirty years. LORD will pass over the door, and will not same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of suffer the destroyer to come in unto your four hundred and thirty years, even the selfhouses to smite you. 42 It is a night to be much observed un24 And ye shall observe this thing for an the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be to the LORD for bringing thera out from the come to the land which the LORD will give land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD their generations. you. according as he hath promised, that ye to be observed of all the children of Israel in shall keep this service.

26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and there shall no stranger eat thereof: Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover;

44 But every man's servant that is bought 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the for money, when thou hast circumcised liin, houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, ten shall he eat thereof. when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head, and worshipped.

28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

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46 In one house shall it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out thereof. of the house; neither shall ye break a bone

29 1 And it came to pass, that at mid- 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it night the LORD smote all the first-born in 43 And when a stranger shall sojourn with the land of Egypt, from the first-born of thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the first-let all his males be circumcised, and then lei born of the captive that was in the dungeon, him come near and keep it; and he shall be und all the first-born of cattle.

30 And 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 an house where there was not one dead.

as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth

among you.

50 Thus did all the children of Israel: as

31 ¶ And he called for Moses and Aarou by night, and said, Rise up, and get you the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so forth from among my people, both ye and did they. the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone: and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the

51 And it came to pass the self-same day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel CHAP. XIII. out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying: 2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born lard in haste; for they said, We be all dead men. whatsoever openeth the womb among the 34 And the people took their dough before children of Israel, both of man and of beast. it was leavened,their kneading-troughs being it is mine. bound .p in their clothes upon their shoulders.

3 And Moses said unto the people, Re35 And the children of Israel did accord-member this day, in which ye came out from ing to the word of Moses; and they borrow- Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by from this place: there shall no leavened bread ed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jew-strength of hand the LORD brought you out els of gold, and raiment. 36 And the LORD gave the people favour be eaten. in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they they required: lent unto them such things as and they spoiled the Egyptians.

4 This day came ye out in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be, when the LORD shatt bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, 37 And the children of Israel journeyed and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the

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