the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 18And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us. And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. "And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, except 67 EXODUS by a mighty hand. 20And I will put voice of the first sign, that they will forth My hand, and smite Egypt with believe the voice of the latter sign.
all My wonders which I will do in the 9And it shall come to pass, if they will midst thereof. And after that he not believe even these two signs, will let you go. 2lAnd I will give this neither hearken unto thy voice, that people favour in the sight of the thou shalt take of the water of the Egyptians. And it shall come to pass, river, and pour it upon the dry land; that, when ye go, ye shall not go and the water which thou takest out empty; ^but every woman shall ask of the river shall become blood upon of her neighbour, and of her that sothe dry land/ 10And Moses said unto journeth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and the LORD: 'Oh Lord, I am not a man of words, neither heretofore, nor ye shall put them upon your sons, and since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servupon your daughters; and ye shall ant; for I am slow of speech, and of a spoil the Egyptians/ slow tongue/ uAnd the LORD said J And Moses answered and said: unto him: 'Who hath made man's T 'But, behold, they will not believe mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, me, nor hearken unto my voice; for or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I they will say: The LORD hath not the LORD? ^Now therefore go, and I appeared unto thee/ 2And the^ LORD will be with thy mouth, and teach said unto him: 'What is that in thy thee what thou shalt speak/ MAnd hand?' And he said: 'A rod.' 3And he said: ' Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, He said: 'Cast it on the ground/ by the hand of him whom Thou wilt And he cast it on the ground, and it send/ I4And the anger of the LORD became a serpent; and Moses fled was kindled against Moses, and He from before it. 4And the LORD said said: ' Is there not Aaron thy brother unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, the Levite? I know that he can speak and take it by the tail — and he put well. And also, behold, he oometh forth his hand, and laid hold of it, forth to meet thee; and when he seeth and it became a rod in his hand — thee, he will be glad hi his heart.
^hat they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of 16And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the be with thy mouth, and with his God of Jacob, hath appeared unto mouth, and will teach you what ye thee/ 6And the LORD said furthershall do. 16And he shall be thy spokesmore unto him: 'Put now thy hand man unto the people; and it shall into thy bosom/ And he put his come to pass, that he shall be to thee band into his bosom; and when he a mouth, and thou shalt be to him book it out, behold, his hand was in God's stead. 17And thou shalt leprous, as white as snow. 7And He take in thy hand this rod, wherewith said: 'Put thy hand back into thy thou shalt do the signs/ oosom. — And he put his hand back 18And Moses went and returned to into his bosom; and when he took it aJethro his father-in-law, and said out of his bosom, behold, it was unto him: 'Let me go, I pray thee, iurned again as his other flesh. — 8And and return unto my brethren that are t shall come to pass, if they will not in Egypt, and see whether they be yet oelieve thee, neither hearken to the alive/ And Jethro said to Moses: ^ Heb. Jether 68 EXODUS 'Go in peace/ 19And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: ' Go, return in- to Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.' 20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do ^ before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. ^And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first- born. ^And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born/ — MAnd it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him,t and sought to kill him. ^Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.' MSo He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bride- groom ^of blood in regard of the cir- cumcision.'
27And the LORD said to Aaron: ' Go into the wilderness to meet Moses/ And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him 28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD wherewith He had sent him, and all the signs wherewith He had charged him. 29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. s°And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had remembered the children of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and wor- shipped.
£ And afterward Moses and Aaron ^ came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.' 2And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.' 3And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilder- ness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pes- tilence, or with the sword/ 4And the king of Egypt said unto them: ' Where- fore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens/ 5And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the knd are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?3 6And the same day Pha- raoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and then* officers, say- ing: 7'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as here- tofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make hereto- fore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour there- in; and let them not regard lying words/ 10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw. uGo yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought EXODUS of your work shall be diminished. ' 12So the people were scattered abroad 'throughout all the land of Egypt io gather stubble for straw. ^And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Ful- fil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' 14And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pha- raoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: ' Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and to-day as heretofore?' 15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying* 'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16There is no straw given unto, thy servants, and they say to us: Make brick; and, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people.' 17But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD. 18Go therefore now, and work, for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.' 19And the officers of the chil- dren of Israel did see that they were set on mischief, when they said: ' Ye shall not dimmish aught from your bricks, your daily task.' 20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh; 21and they said unto them: 'The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.' ^And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me? ^For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all/ And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them^go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.'
6 6 2And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: ' I am the LORD; 3and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name amrp I made Me not known to them. 4And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourmngs, wherein they sojourned. 5And moreover I have heard the groaning of the chil- dren of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remem- bered My covenant. 6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments; 7and I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I hf ted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am the LORD.' 9And Mioses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
10And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: lx'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.' 12And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying: 'Behold, the children of Israel have 1 The ineffable name, read Adonai, which means, the Lord. 70 EXODUS 77 not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?'
13And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, the families of the Korahites. Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers7 houses of the Levites according to their families.
and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to 1 26These are that Aaron and Moses, to bring the children of Israel out of the whom the LORD said: 'Bring out the land of Egypt.
uThese are the heads of then* fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben the first- born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. "And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Chad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish wom- an. These are the families of Simeon. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their gen- erations: Gershon and Koliath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years. nThe sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 18And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 19And the sons of Merari: MahJi and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 20And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. 21And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. ^And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daugh- ter of Amminadab, the sister of Nah- shon, to wife; and she bore him Na- dab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24And the sons of Korah: Assir, and children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts/ 27These are they that spoks to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron. 28And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt, 29that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'I am the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee/ 30And Moses said before the LORD: 'Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall rj Pharaoh hearken unto me?' *And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet, ^hou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 3And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth Sly hosts, My people the chil- dren of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 6And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the chil- dren of Israel from among them/ 6And Moses and Aaron did so; as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7And Moses was fourscore years Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are I old, and Aaron fourscore and three 71 77 EXODUS years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
8And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 9'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.' 10And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pha- raoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and be- fore his servants, and it became a serpent. uThen Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts. ^For they cast down every man his rod, and they became ser- pents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. ^And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.
14And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he re- fuseth to let the people go. 15Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not heark- ened; 17thus saith the LORD* In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD — behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'
19And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.' 20And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were ink the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. ^And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 22And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with then* secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. 23And Pharaoh Burned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. 24And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
^Ajid the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 27And 3 thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. 28And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, 72 EXODUS and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-trough s. 29And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and Q upon all thy servants.' JAnd the ^ LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.' 2And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 3Aiid the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 4Then Pha- raoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the LORD, that He take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.' 5And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over me; against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?' 6And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. 7And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.' 8And Moses and Aaron went out from Pha- raoh; and Moses cried unto the LORD concerning the frogs, which He had brought upon Pharaoh. 9And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 10And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. uBut when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken, 12And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.' 13And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. 14And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast, ^hen the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger of God'; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.
16And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 17Else, S thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyp- tians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 18And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in "which My people dwell,, that no swarms of files shall be there; to the end that thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. ^And I will put a division between My people and thy people — by to-morrow shall this sign be.' 20And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' 73 EXODUS 73 EXODUS houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. 21And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said 'Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land/ ^And Moses said: 'It is no'fc meet so to dp; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God; lo, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians be- fore their eyes, will they not stone us? ^We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall com- mand us/ ^And Pharaoh said^ 'I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilder- ness; only ye shall not go very far away; entreat for me/ 26And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD/ 26And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 27And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. 2lAnd Pha- raoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
Q Then the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him* Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 2For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. 4And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel/ 6And the LORD appointed a set time, saying: 'To-morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land/ 6And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. 7And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
8And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you hand- fuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. 9Aiid it shall be- come small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt/ 10And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. uAnd the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. ^And the LORD hardened the heart of Pha- raoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
13And the( LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 14For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou may- 74 EXODUS