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So Aaron will speak for you. Like God, you will speak to him, and he will tell the people what you say.

Then, while Moses was still in Midian, the Lord said to him, "It is safe for you to go back to Egypt now. The men who wanted to kill you are now dead."

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

So the Egyptian slave masters and the Hebrew foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Pharaoh has decided that he will not give you straw for your bricks.

You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw, but you must still make as many bricks as you made before."

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for straw.

The Egyptian slave masters had chosen the Hebrew foremen and had made them responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these foremen and said to them, "Why aren't you making as many bricks as you made in the past? If you could do it then, you can do it now!"

You give us no straw, but you tell us to make as many bricks as before. And now our masters are beating us. Your people are wrong for doing this."

When they were leaving the meeting with Pharaoh, they passed Moses and Aaron. Moses and Aaron were waiting for them.

So they said to Moses and Aaron, "May the Lord judge and punish you for what you did! You made Pharaoh and his rulers hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us."

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. I will use my great power against him, and he will let my people go. He will be so ready for them to leave that he will force them to go."

So Pharaoh called for his wise men and magicians. These men used their magic, and they were able to do the same thing as Aaron.

The Egyptians could not drink the water from the river, so they dug wells around the river for water to drink.

Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Ask the Lord to remove the frogs from me and my people. I will let the people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord ."

Moses said to Pharaoh, "I will pray for you, your people, and your officials. Then the frogs will leave you and your houses. They will remain only in the river. When do you want the frogs to go away?"

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

But Moses said, "It would not be right to do that. The Egyptians think it is terrible to kill animals as sacrifices for the Lord our God. If we do this here, the Egyptians will see us and throw stones at us and kill us.

So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go and offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, but you must not go very far. Now, go and pray for me."

The Lord has set the time for this to happen. He said, ‘Tomorrow the Lord will make this happen in this country.'"

But I have put you here for a reason. I have put you here so that I could show you my power. Then people all over the world will learn about me!