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10:1
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show
these My signs in the midst of them; 10:2 and that thou mayest tell
in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I have wrought
upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may
know that I am the LORD.' 10:3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto
Pharaoh, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of the
Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before Me? let
My people go, that they may serve Me. 10:4 Else, if thou refuse to
let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy
border; 10:5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one
shall not 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; 10:6 and
thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and
the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy
fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the
earth unto this day.' And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh. 10:7
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?' 10:8 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?' 10:9
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 we
will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.' 10:10 And he said
unto them: 'So be the LORD with you, as I will let you go, and your
little ones; see ye that evil is before your face. 10:11 Not so; go
now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.'
And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the
land of Egypt 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.' 10:13 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 the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the
locusts. 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,
and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they;
before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them
shall be such. 10:15 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 the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there
remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field,
through all the land of Egypt. 10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses
and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have sinned against the LORD your
God, and against you. 10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my
sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take
away from me this death only.' 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh,
and entreated the LORD. 10:19 And the LORD turned an exceeding strong
west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red
Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt. 10:20
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the
children of Israel go.
10:21 And the LORD said unto
Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be
darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.'
10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was
a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 10:23 they saw
not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days; but
all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 10:24 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.' 10:25 And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand
sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD
our God. 10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a
hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our
God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come
thither.' 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would
not let them go. 10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him: 'Get thee from me,
take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest
my face thou shalt die.' 10:29 And Moses said: 'Thou hast spoken
well; I will see thy face again no more.'
11:1
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he
shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man
of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold.' 11:3 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.
11:4 And Moses said: 'Thus saith the
LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt; 11:5 and
all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the
first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the
first-born of cattle. 11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor
shall be like it any more. 11:7 But against any of the children of
Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that ye
may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the
Egyptians and Israel. 11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down
unto me, and bow down unto me, saying: Get thee out, and all the
people that follow thee; and after that I will go out.' And he went
out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
11:9 And the LORD
said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders
may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.' 11:10 And Moses and Aaron
did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
12:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying:
12:2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall
be the first month of the year to you. 12:3 Speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers'
houses, a lamb for a household; 12:4 and if the household be too
little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his
house take one according to the number of the souls; according to
every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 12:5 Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall
take it from the sheep, or from the goats; 12:6 and ye shall keep it
unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk. 12:7 And they shall
take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the
lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 12:8 And they
shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 12:9 Eat not of it raw,
nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its
legs and with the inwards thereof. 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the
morning ye shall burn with fire. 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it: with
your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your
hand; and ye shall eat it in haste--it is the LORD'S passover. 12:12
For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the
LORD. 12:13 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
there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the
land of Egypt. 12:14 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. 12:15 Seven days
shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put
away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread
from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off
from Israel. 12:16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy
convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of
work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that
only may be done by you. 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts
out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever. 12:18 In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat
unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at
even. 12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses;
for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut
off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or
one that is born in the land. 12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and
kill the passover lamb. 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel
and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none
of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 12:23
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He
seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD
will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in
unto your houses to smite you. 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 12:25 And it shall
come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give
you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
you: What mean ye by this service? 12:27 that ye shall say: It is the
sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for that He passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and
delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
12:29 And it
came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his
throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon;
and all the first-born of cattle. 12:30 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 a house where there was not
one dead. 12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said:
'Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the
children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. 12:32
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone;
and bless me also.' 12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the
people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said: 'We are
all dead men.' 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was
leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon
their shoulders. 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to
the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold, and raiment. 12:36 And the LORD gave the people
favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what
they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. 12:38 And a mixed
multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle. 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which
they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because
they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they
prepared for themselves any victual. 12:40 Now the time that the
children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
12:41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the host of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 12:42 It was a night of
watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt;
this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the
children of Israel throughout their generations.
12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance
of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof; 12:44 but every
man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised
him, then shall he eat thereof. 12:45 A sojourner and a hired servant
shall not eat thereof. 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou
shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house;
neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 12:47 All the congregation of
Israel shall keep it. 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with
thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be
as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall
eat thereof. 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth among you.' 12:50 Thus did all the
children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did
they.
12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day
that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their hosts.
13:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 13:2 'Sanctify unto Me all the
first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel,
both of man and of beast, it is Mine.'
13:3 And
Moses said unto the people: 'Remember this day, in which ye came out
from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the
LORD brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread
be eaten. 13:4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib. 13:5 And it
shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land
flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in
this month. 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in
the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. 13:7 Unleavened bread
shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened
bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with
thee, in all thy borders. 13:8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that
day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I
came forth out of Egypt. 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee
upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of
the LORD may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the LORD
brought thee out of Egypt. 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this
ordinance in its season from year to year.
13:11 And
it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the
Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give
it thee, 13:12 that thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that
openeth the womb; every firstling that is a male, which thou hast
coming of a beast, shall be the LORD'S. 13:13 And every firstling of
an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it,
then thou shalt break its neck; and all the first-born of man among
thy sons shalt thou redeem. 13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh
thee in time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto
him: By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of bondage; 13:15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would
hardly let us go that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast;
therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the womb, being
males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 13:16 And it shall
be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes;
for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.'
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