Exodus
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- Now the LORD had said to Moses, "I
will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let
you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.
- Tell the people that men and women alike
are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold."
- (The LORD made the Egyptians favorably disposed
toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's
officials and by the people.)
- So Moses said, "This is what the LORD
says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.
- Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from
the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son
of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle
as well.
- There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt
-- worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.
- But among the Israelites not a dog will
bark at any man or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction
between Egypt and Israel.
- All these officials of yours will come to
me, bowing down before me and saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow
you!' After that I will leave." Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
- The LORD had said to Moses, "Pharaoh
will refuse to listen to you -- so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt."
- Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders
before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
the Israelites go out of his country.
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