^48:1Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. ^48:2And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed. ^48:3And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, ^48:4And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever. ^48:5And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are. ^48:6And any other offspring which you have after them, will be yours, and will be named after their brothers in their heritage. ^48:7And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. ^48:8Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these? ^48:9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing. ^48:10Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms. ^48:11And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children. ^48:12Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth. ^48:13Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him. ^48:14And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older. ^48:15And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, ^48:16The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth. ^48:17Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh. ^48:18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head. ^48:19But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations. ^48:20So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh. ^48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers. ^48:22And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

^49:1And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times. ^49:2Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. ^49:3Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ^49:4But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. ^49:5Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. ^49:6Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. ^49:7A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel. ^49:8To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. ^49:9Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken? ^49:10The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule. ^49:11Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: ^49:12His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk. ^49:13The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon. ^49:14Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: ^49:15And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant. ^49:16Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ^49:17May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall. ^49:18I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord. ^49:19Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight. ^49:20Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings. ^49:21Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones. ^49:22Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; ^49:23He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ^49:24But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: ^49:25Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: ^49:26Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers. ^49:27Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken. ^49:28These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing. ^49:29And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ^49:30In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. ^49:31There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest. ^49:32In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth. ^49:33And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

^50:1And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. ^50:2And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. ^50:3And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. ^50:4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: ^50:5My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. ^50:6And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. ^50:7So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt, ^50:8And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen. ^50:9And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. ^50:10And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. ^50:11And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. ^50:12So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: ^50:13For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. ^50:14And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt. ^50:15Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him. ^50:16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, ^50:17You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping. ^50:18Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. ^50:19And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? ^50:20As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today. ^50:21So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words. ^50:22Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten. ^50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees. ^50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. ^50:25Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. ^50:26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Exodus

^1:1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob. ^1:2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ^1:3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ^1:4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ^1:5All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them. ^1:6Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation. ^1:7And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them. ^1:8Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph. ^1:9And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are: ^1:10Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land. ^1:11So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses. ^1:12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians. ^1:13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: ^1:14And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions. ^1:15And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah), ^1:16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living. ^1:17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living. ^1:18And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living? ^1:19And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them. ^1:20And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong. ^1:21And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families. ^1:22And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

^2:1Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi. ^2:2And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months. ^2:3And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile. ^2:4And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him. ^2:5Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it. ^2:6And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. ^2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast? ^2:8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother. ^2:9And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and give it milk for me, and I will give you payment. And the woman took the child and gave it milk at her breast. ^2:10And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water. ^2:11Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people. ^2:12And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand. ^2:13And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother? ^2:14And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light. ^2:15Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring. ^2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock. ^2:17And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them. ^2:18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today? ^2:19And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock. ^2:20And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal. ^2:21And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. ^2:22And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land. ^2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. ^2:24And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind. ^2:25And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.

^3:1Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ^3:2And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up. ^3:3And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up, ^3:4And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. ^3:5And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. ^3:6And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God. ^3:7And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows; ^3:8And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ^3:9For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them. ^3:10Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. ^3:11And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take the children of Israel out of Egypt? ^3:12And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God on this mountain. ^3:13And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to them? ^3:14And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. ^3:15And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations. ^3:16Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt; ^3:17And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey. ^3:18And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God. ^3:19And I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let you go without being forced. ^3:20But I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all the wonders which I will do among them: and after that he will let you go. ^3:21And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go out you will go out with your hands full. ^3:22For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.

^4:1And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord. ^4:2And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. ^4:3And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it. ^4:4And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:) ^4:5So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you. ^4:6Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow. ^4:7And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.) ^4:8And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign. ^4:9And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land. ^4:10And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue. ^4:11And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ^4:12So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say. ^4:13And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send. ^4:14And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart. ^4:15Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do. ^4:16And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God. ^4:17And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs. ^4:18And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. ^4:19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life. ^4:20And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand. ^4:21And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go. ^4:22And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons: ^4:23And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death. ^4:24Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death. ^4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me. ^4:26So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision. ^4:27And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss. ^4:28And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do. ^4:29Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel: ^4:30And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the signs before all the people. ^4:31And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

^5:1And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land. ^5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go. ^5:3And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword. ^5:4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work. ^5:5And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work. ^5:6The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying, ^5:7Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. ^5:8But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God. ^5:9Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words. ^5:10And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems. ^5:11Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less. ^5:12So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems. ^5:13And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you. ^5:14And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before? ^5:15Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants? ^5:16They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong. ^5:17But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord. ^5:18Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks. ^5:19Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before. ^5:20And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh: ^5:21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction. ^5:22And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me? ^5:23For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

^6:1And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm. ^6:2And God said to Moses, I am Yahweh: ^6:3I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh. ^6:4And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings. ^6:5And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement. ^6:6Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments. ^6:7And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. ^6:8And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh. ^6:9And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work. ^6:10And the Lord said to Moses, ^6:11Go in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to let the children of Israel go out of his land. ^6:12And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean? ^6:13And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with orders for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. ^6:14These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben. ^6:15And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon. ^6:16And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. ^6:17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. ^6:18And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three. ^6:19And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations. ^6:20And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. ^6:21And the sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. ^6:22And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. ^6:23And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ^6:24And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites. ^6:25And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their families. ^6:26These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, Take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their armies. ^6:27These are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of Egypt: these are the same Moses and Aaron. ^6:28And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt, ^6:29The Lord said to Moses, I am the Lord: say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything I am saying to you. ^6:30And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?

^7:1And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ^7:2Say whatever I give you orders to say: and Aaron your brother will give word to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of his land. ^7:3And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt. ^7:4But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments. ^7:5And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them. ^7:6And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did. ^7:7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh. ^7:8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ^7:9If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake. ^7:10Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake. ^7:11Then Pharaoh sent for the wise men and the wonder-workers, and they, the wonder-workers of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts. ^7:12For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods. ^7:13But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. ^7:14And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go. ^7:15Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand; ^7:16And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words. ^7:17So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood; ^7:18And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking. ^7:19And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone. ^7:20And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood; ^7:21And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt. ^7:22And the wonder-workers of Egypt did the same with their secret arts: but Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. ^7:23Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart. ^7:24And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water. ^7:25And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.

^8:1And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship. ^8:2And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land: ^8:3The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins. ^8:4The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants. ^8:5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt. ^8:6And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them. ^8:7And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt. ^8:8Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord. ^8:9And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile. ^8:10And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God. ^8:11And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile. ^8:12Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh. ^8:13And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields. ^8:14And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land. ^8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. ^8:16And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt. ^8:17And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt. ^8:18And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast. ^8:19Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. ^8:20And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship. ^8:21For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies. ^8:22And at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the earth. ^8:23And I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign will be seen. ^8:24And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies. ^8:25And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land. ^8:26And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned. ^8:27But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders. ^8:28Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me. ^8:29And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord. ^8:30Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord. ^8:31And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen. ^8:32But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.

^9:1Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship. ^9:2For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power, ^9:3Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease. ^9:4And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. ^9:5And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land. ^9:6And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. ^9:7And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go. ^9:8And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh. ^9:9And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of Egypt. ^9:10So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast. ^9:11And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians. ^9:12And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said. ^9:13And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship. ^9:14For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth. ^9:15For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth: ^9:16But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth. ^9:17Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go? ^9:18Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now. ^9:19Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction. ^9:20Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house: ^9:21And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field. ^9:22And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt. ^9:23And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt. ^9:24So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation. ^9:25And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken. ^9:26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm. ^9:27Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners. ^9:28Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer. ^9:29And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's. ^9:30But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts. ^9:31And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower. ^9:32But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up. ^9:33So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was stopped. ^9:34But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants. ^9:35And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.

^10:1And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them: ^10:2And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord. ^10:3Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship. ^10:4For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land: ^10:5And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields. ^10:6And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh. ^10:7And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger? ^10:8Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going? ^10:9And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord. ^10:10And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil. ^10:11Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him. ^10:12And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm. ^10:13And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind. ^10:14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again. ^10:15For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt. ^10:16Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you. ^10:17Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only. ^10:18So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord. ^10:19And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt. ^10:20But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go. ^10:21And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. ^10:22And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; ^10:23They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light. ^10:24Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you. ^10:25But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God. ^10:26So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place. ^10:27But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go. ^10:28And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that you come not again before me; for the day when you see my face again will be your last. ^10:29And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again.

^11:1And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go; and when he does let you go, he will not keep one of you back, but will send you out by force. ^11:2So go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold. ^11:3And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians. For the man Moses was highly honoured in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the people. ^11:4And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt: ^11:5And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle. ^11:6And there will be a great cry through all the land of Egypt, such as never has been or will be again. ^11:7But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians. ^11:8And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath. ^11:9And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not give ear to you, so that my wonders may be increased in the land of Egypt. ^11:10All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

^12:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ^12:2Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year. ^12:3Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family: ^12:4And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man. ^12:5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats: ^12:6Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. ^12:7Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken. ^12:8And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. ^12:9Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts. ^12:10Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire. ^12:11And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. ^12:12For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord. ^12:13And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt. ^12:14And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. ^12:15For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. ^12:16And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food. ^12:17So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever. ^12:18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. ^12:19For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. ^12:20Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes. ^12:21Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death. ^12:22And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning. ^12:23For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction. ^12:24And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever. ^12:25And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship. ^12:26And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship? ^12:27Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads. ^12:28And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did. ^12:29And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle. ^12:30Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead. ^12:31And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said. ^12:32And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing. ^12:33And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men. ^12:34And the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs. ^12:35And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing: ^12:36And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians. ^12:37And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children. ^12:38And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and herds in great numbers. ^12:39And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready. ^12:40Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years. ^12:41And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt. ^12:42It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations. ^12:43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it: ^12:44But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision. ^12:45A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it. ^12:46It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken. ^12:47All Israel is to keep the feast. ^12:48And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it. ^12:49The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you. ^12:50So the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses and Aaron. ^12:51And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

^13:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^13:2Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine. ^13:3And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used. ^13:4On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out. ^13:5And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month. ^13:6For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord. ^13:7Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land. ^13:8And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt. ^13:9And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt. ^13:10So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year. ^13:11And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, ^13:12You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord. ^13:13And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made. ^13:14And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house: ^13:15And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price. ^13:16And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt. ^13:17Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt. ^13:18But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt. ^13:19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly keep you in mind; and you are to take my bones away with you. ^13:20Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land. ^13:21And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night: ^13:22The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.

^14:1And the Lord said to Moses, ^14:2Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea. ^14:3And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land. ^14:4And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so. ^14:5And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us? ^14:6So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him: ^14:7And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over all of them. ^14:8And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel had gone out without fear. ^14:9But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon. ^14:10And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God. ^14:11And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt? ^14:12Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land. ^14:13But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again. ^14:14The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet. ^14:15And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of Israel the order to go forward. ^14:16And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land. ^14:17And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen. ^14:18And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his horsemen. ^14:19Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back: ^14:20And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night. ^14:21And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land. ^14:22And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left. ^14:23Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen. ^14:24And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians; ^14:25And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians. ^14:26And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen. ^14:27And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. ^14:28And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen. ^14:29But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left. ^14:30So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge. ^14:31And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

^15:1Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. ^15:2The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory. ^15:3The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ^15:4Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea. ^15:5They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves. ^15:6Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. ^15:7When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. ^15:8By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea. ^15:9Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. ^15:10You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters. ^15:11Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders? ^15:12When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them. ^15:13In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place. ^15:14Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. ^15:15The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. ^15:16Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours. ^15:17You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands. ^15:18The Lord is King for ever and ever. ^15:19For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land. ^15:20And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances. ^15:21And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea. ^15:22Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water. ^15:23And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah. ^15:24And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink? ^15:25And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them; ^15:26And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver. ^15:27And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.

^16:1And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt. ^16:2And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land: ^16:3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food. ^16:4Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not. ^16:5And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days. ^16:6And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt: ^16:7And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us? ^16:8And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord. ^16:9And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry. ^16:10And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud. ^16:11And the Lord said to Moses, ^16:12The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God. ^16:13And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents. ^16:14And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth. ^16:15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food. ^16:16This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family. ^16:17And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less. ^16:18And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of. ^16:19And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning. ^16:20But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them. ^16:21And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone. ^16:22And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it. ^16:23And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning. ^16:24And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms. ^16:25And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields. ^16:26For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any. ^16:27But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any. ^16:28And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws? ^16:29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. ^16:30So the people took their rest on the seventh day. ^16:31And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. ^16:32And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt. ^16:33And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations. ^16:34So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ^16:35And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan. ^16:36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.