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Each woman should ask her Egyptian neighbor and any Egyptian woman living in her house for gifts—silver, gold, and clothing. You should put those gifts on your children when you leave Egypt. In this way you will take with you the riches of the Egyptians."

Aaron will speak to the people for you. You will tell him what God says, and he will speak for you.

As Moses was on his way to Egypt, he stopped at a resting place for the night. The Lord met him there and tried to kill him.

and Aaron told them everything that the Lord had told Moses. Then Moses did the miracles for all the people to see,

After Moses and Aaron talked to the people, they went to the king of Egypt and said, "This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go so they may hold a feast for me in the desert.'"

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw.

The king's slave masters had made the Israelite foremen responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these men and asked them, "Why aren't you making as many bricks as you made in the past?"

As they were leaving the meeting with the king, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them.

The Lord said to Moses, "I have made you like God to the king of Egypt, and your brother Aaron will be like a prophet for you.

The Egyptians could not drink the water from the Nile, so all of them dug along the bank of the river, looking for water to drink.

The king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people. I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord ."

Moses said to the king, "Please set the time when I should pray for you, your people, and your officers. Then the frogs will leave you and your houses and will remain only in the Nile."

The king called for Moses and Aaron and told them, "Offer sacrifices to your God here in this country."

The king said, "I will let you go so that you may offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, but you must not go very far away. Now go and pray for me."

But I have let you live for this reason: to show you my power so that my name will be talked about in all the earth.

Now send for your animals and whatever you have in the fields, and bring them into a safe place. The hail will fall on every person or animal that is still in the fields. If they have not been brought in, they will die.'"

The king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, "This time I have sinned. The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

So Moses and Aaron went to the king and told him, "This is what the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to be sorry for what you have done? Let my people go to worship me.

The king's officers asked him, "How long will this man make trouble for us? Let the Israelites go to worship the Lord their God. Don't you know that Egypt is ruined?"

No! Only the men may go and worship the Lord , which is what you have been asking for." Then the king forced Moses and Aaron out of his palace.