^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.

^17:1And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. ^17:2So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test? ^17:3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water? ^17:4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning. ^17:5And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go. ^17:6See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel. ^17:7And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not? ^17:8Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim. ^17:9And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. ^17:10So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ^17:11Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger. ^17:12But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down. ^17:13And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword. ^17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth. ^17:15Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi: ^17:16For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

^18:1Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt. ^18:2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ^18:3And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land: ^18:4And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh: ^18:5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God. ^18:6And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons. ^18:7And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent. ^18:8And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation. ^18:9And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians. ^18:10And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians. ^18:11Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride. ^18:12Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God. ^18:13Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening. ^18:14And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening? ^18:15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God: ^18:16And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God. ^18:17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. ^18:18Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself. ^18:19Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: ^18:20Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do. ^18:21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; ^18:22And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you. ^18:23If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. ^18:24So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said. ^18:25And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens. ^18:26And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves. ^18:27And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

^19:1In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai. ^19:2And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents. ^19:3And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel: ^19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself. ^19:5If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: ^19:6And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel. ^19:7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say. ^19:8And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people. ^19:9And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said. ^19:10And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed. ^19:11And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people. ^19:12And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death: ^19:13He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain. ^19:14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed. ^19:15And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman. ^19:16And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear. ^19:17And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain, ^19:18And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking. ^19:19And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God. ^19:20Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. ^19:21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction. ^19:22And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly. ^19:23And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy. ^19:24And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly. ^19:25So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.

^20:1And God said all these words: ^20:2I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. ^20:3You are to have no other gods but me. ^20:4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: ^20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; ^20:6And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. ^20:7You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord ^20:8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. ^20:9On six days do all your work: ^20:10But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: ^20:11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy. ^20:12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ^20:13Do not put anyone to death without cause. ^20:14Do not be false to the married relation. ^20:15Do not take the property of another. ^20:16Do not give false witness against your neighbour. ^20:17Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his. ^20:18And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear. ^20:19And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. ^20:20And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin. ^20:21And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was. ^20:22And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven ^20:23Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves. ^20:24Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. ^20:25And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean. ^20:26And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

^21:1Now these are the laws which you are to put before them. ^21:2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment. ^21:3If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him. ^21:4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself. ^21:5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free: ^21:6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever. ^21:7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do. ^21:8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her. ^21:9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter. ^21:10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less. ^21:11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment. ^21:12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. ^21:13But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight. ^21:14But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death. ^21:15Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death. ^21:16Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act. ^21:17Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death. ^21:18If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed; ^21:19If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well. ^21:20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment. ^21:21But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property. ^21:22If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges. ^21:23But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life, ^21:24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ^21:25Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow. ^21:26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye. ^21:27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth. ^21:28If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. ^21:29But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death. ^21:30If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed. ^21:31If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule. ^21:32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned. ^21:33If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death; ^21:34The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his. ^21:35And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one. ^21:36But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.