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‘But I will judge the people whom they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’(A)

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12 He said, “I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”(A)

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27 They performed his signs among them
    and miracles in the land of Ham.(A)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
    they rebelled[a] against his words.(B)
29 He turned their waters into blood
    and caused their fish to die.(C)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
    even in the chambers of their kings.(D)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
    and gnats throughout their country.(E)
32 He gave them hail for rain
    and lightning that flashed through their land.(F)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
    and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
    and young locusts without number;(G)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
    and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    the first issue of all their strength.(H)

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  1. 105.28 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb they did not rebel

14 but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.(A) 15 As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.(B) 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”(C)

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10 who struck Egypt through their firstborn,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
11 and brought Israel out from among them,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
12 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(C)
13 who divided the Red Sea[a] in two,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(D)
14 and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(E)
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,[b]
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(F)

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  1. 136.13 Or Sea of Reeds
  2. 136.15 Or Sea of Reeds

He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
    both humans and animals;(A)
he sent signs and wonders
    into your midst, O Egypt,
    against Pharaoh and all his servants.(B)

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43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
    and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.(A)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
    and frogs that destroyed them.(B)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamores with frost.(C)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.(D)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of destroying angels.(E)
50 He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
    the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(F)

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12 Yet God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the earth.(A)
13 You divided the sea by your might;
    you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.(B)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
    you gave him as food[a] for the creatures of the wilderness.

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  1. 74.14 Heb food for the people

“And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](A) 10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.(B) 11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.(C)

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  1. 9.9 Or Sea of Reeds

The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.(A) You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.(B) But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.(C) When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.(D) The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”(E) Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.(F) Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(G)

Aaron’s Miraculous Rod

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”(H) 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.(I) 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.(J) 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.(K)

The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.(L)

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Awake, awake, put on strength,
    O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
    the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
    who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
    for the redeemed to cross over?(B)

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