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and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,' but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!"'"

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord , and I will not release Israel!"

But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.'

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ‘Make bricks!' Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people."

But Pharaoh replied, "You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord .'

So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!"

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord ' I was not known to them.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

But Moses replied to the Lord , "If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?"

But Moses said before the Lord , "Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?"

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

Tell him, ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, "Release my people, that they may serve me in the desert!" But until now you have not listened.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron—just as the Lord had predicted.

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

The magicians said to Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God!" But Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

But Moses said, "That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the Lord our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?