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Exodus 9

    ²If you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

    ³Behold, the hand of the Lord [will fall] upon your livestock which are out in the field, upon the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds and the flocks; there shall be a very severe plague.

    ⁴But the Lord shall make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the Israelites.

    ⁵And the Lord set a time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.

    ⁶And the Lord did that the next day, and all [kinds of] the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the Israelites not one died.

    ⁷Pharaoh sent to find out, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened [his mind was set] and he did not let the people go.

    ⁸The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Take handfuls of ashes or soot from the brickkiln and let Moses sprinkle them toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh.

    ⁹And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast in all the land [occupied by the Egyptians].

    ¹⁰So they took ashes or soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw them toward the sky, and it became boils erupting in sores on man and beast.

    ¹¹And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of their boils; for the boils were on the magicians and all the Egyptians.

    ¹²But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, making it strong and obstinate, and he did not listen to them or heed them, just as the Lord had told Moses.

    ¹³Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

    ¹⁴For this time I will send all My plagues upon your heart and upon your servants and your people, that you may recognize and know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

    ¹⁵For by now I could have put forth My hand and have struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

    ¹⁶But for this very purpose have I let you live, that I might show you My power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.^(A)

    ¹⁷Since you are still exalting yourself [in haughty defiance] against My people by not letting them go,

    ¹⁸Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very heavy and dreadful fall of hail, such as has not been in Egypt from its founding until now.

    ¹⁹Send therefore now and gather your cattle in hastily, and all that you have in the field; for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home shall be struck by the hail and shall die.

    ²⁰Then he who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses and shelters.

    ²¹And he who ignored the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.

    ²²The Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward the heavens, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast, and upon all the vegetation of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

    ²³Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire (lightning) ran down to and along the ground, and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

    ²⁴So there was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the weighty hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

    ²⁵The hail struck down throughout all the land of Egypt everything that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail beat down all the vegetation of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

    ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail.

    ²⁷And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time; the Lord is in the right and I and my people are in the wrong.

    ²⁸Entreat the Lord, for there has been enough of these mighty thunderings and hail [these voices of God]; I will let you go; you shall stay here no longer.

    ²⁹Moses said to him, As soon as I leave the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord; the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail, that you may know that the earth is the Lord's.

    ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet [reverently] fear the Lord God.

    ³¹The flax and the barley were smitten and ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax in bloom.

    ³²But the wheat and spelt [another wheat] were not smitten, for they ripen late and were not grown up yet.

    ³³So Moses left the city and Pharaoh, and stretched forth his hands to the Lord; and the thunder and hail ceased, and rain was no longer poured upon the earth.

    ³⁴But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more, and toughened and stiffened his hard heart, he and his servants.

    ³⁵So Pharaoh's heart was strong and obstinate; he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said by Moses.^(B)

Exodus 10

    ²And that you may recount in the ears of your son and of your grandson what I have done in derision of the Egyptians and what things I have [repeatedly] done there--My signs [of divine power] done among them--that you may recognize and know that I am the Lord.

    ³So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

    ⁴For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

    ⁵And they shall cover the land so that one cannot see the ground; and they shall eat the remainder of what escaped and is left to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field;

    ⁶The locusts shall fill your houses and those of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen from their birth until this day. Then Moses departed from Pharaoh.

    ⁷And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God; do you not yet understand and know that Egypt is destroyed?

    ⁸So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go, serve the Lord your God; but just who are to go?

    ⁹And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds [all of us and all we have], for we must hold a feast to the Lord.

    ¹⁰Pharaoh said to them, Let the Lord be with you, if I ever let you go with your little ones! See, you have some evil purpose in mind.

    ¹¹Not so! You that are men, [without your families] go and serve the Lord, for that is what you want. And [Moses and Aaron] were driven from Pharaoh's presence.

    ¹²Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail has left.

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

    ¹⁴And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled down on the whole country of Egypt, a very dreadful mass of them; never before were there such locusts as these, nor will there ever be again.

    ¹⁵For they covered the whole land, so that the ground was darkened, and they ate every bit of vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; there remained not a green thing of the trees or the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.

    ¹⁶Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron in haste. He said, I have sinned against the Lord your God and you.

    ¹⁷Now therefore forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the Lord your God only that He may remove from me this [plague of] death.

    ¹⁸Then Moses left Pharaoh and entreated the Lord.

    ¹⁹And the Lord turned a violent west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained in all the country of Egypt.

    ²⁰But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart more strong and obstinate, and he would not let the Israelites go.

    ²¹And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt.

    ²²So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and for three days a thick darkness was all over the land of Egypt.

    ²³The Egyptians could not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the Israelites had natural light in their dwellings.

    ²⁴And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, Go, serve the Lord; let your little ones also go with you; it is only your flocks and your herds that must not go.

    ²⁵But Moses said, You must give into our hand also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

    ²⁶Our livestock also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for of them must we take to serve the Lord our God, and we know not with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.

    ²⁷But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart stronger and more stubborn, and he would not let them go.

    ²⁸And Pharaoh said to Moses, Get away from me! See that you never enter my presence again, for the day you see my face again you shall die!

    ²⁹And Moses said, You have spoken truly; I will never see your face again.

Exodus 11

    ²Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man solicit and ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.

    ³And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was exceedingly great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and of the people.

    ⁴And Moses said, Thus says the Lord, About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt;

    ⁵And all the firstborn in the land [the pride, hope, and joy] of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maidservant who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.

    ⁶There shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as has never been nor ever shall be again.

    ⁷But against any of the Israelites shall not so much as a dog move his tongue against man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

    ⁸And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, Get out, and all the people who follow you! And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

    ⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, that My wonders and miracles may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

    ¹⁰Moses and Aaron did all these wonders and miracles before Pharaoh; and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's stubborn heart, and he did not let the Israelites go out of his land.

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²¹And going away from there, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

    ²²And behold, a woman who was a Canaanite from that district came out and, with a [loud, troublesomely urgent] cry, begged, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is miserably and distressingly and cruelly possessed by a demon!

    ²³But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, Send her away, for she is crying out after us.

    ²⁴He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

    ²⁵But she came and, kneeling, worshiped Him and kept praying, Lord, help me!

    ²⁶And He answered, It is not right (proper, becoming, or fair) to take the children's bread and throw it to the ^[a]little dogs.

    ²⁷She said, Yes, Lord, yet even the little pups (^[b]little whelps) eat the crumbs that fall from their [young] masters' table.

    ²⁸Then Jesus answered her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you wish. And her daughter was cured from that ^[c]moment.

    ²⁹And Jesus went on from there and passed along the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Then He went up into the hills and kept sitting there.

    ³⁰And a great multitude came to Him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb, and many others, and they put them down at His feet; and He cured them,

    ³¹So that the crowd was amazed when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they ^[d]recognized and praised and thanked and glorified the God of Israel.

    ³²Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, I have pity and sympathy and am deeply moved for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and they have nothing [at all left] to eat; and I am not willing to send them away hungry, lest they faint or become exhausted on the way.

    ³³And the disciples said to Him, Where are we to get bread sufficient to feed so great a crowd in this isolated and desert place?

    ³⁴And Jesus asked them, How many loaves of bread do you have? They replied, Seven, and a few small fish.

    ³⁵And ordering the crowd to recline on the ground,

    ³⁶He took the seven loaves and the fish, and when He had given thanks, He broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

    ³⁷And they all ate and were satisfied. And they gathered up seven [^[e]large provision] baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

    ³⁸Those who ate were 4,000 men, not including the women and the children.

    ³⁹Then He dismissed the crowds, got into the boat, and went to the district of Magadan.