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I went to the king and said what you told me to say, but ever since that time he has made the people suffer. And you have done nothing to save them."

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by the name God Almighty, but they did not know me by my name, the Lord .

I also made my agreement with them to give them the land of Canaan. They lived in that land, but it was not their own.

So Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him. They were discouraged, and their slavery was hard.

But Moses answered, "The Israelites will not listen to me, so surely the king will not listen to me either. I am not a good speaker."

But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them orders about the Israelites and the king of Egypt. He commanded them to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

But Moses answered, "I am not a good speaker. The king will not listen to me."

But I will make the king stubborn. I will do many miracles in Egypt,

but he will still refuse to listen. So then I will punish Egypt terribly, and I will lead my divisions, my people the Israelites, out of that land.

They threw their walking sticks on the ground, and their sticks became snakes. But Aaron's stick swallowed theirs.

But when the king saw that they were free of the frogs, he became stubborn again. He did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

Using their tricks, the magicians tried to do the same thing, but they could not make the dust change into gnats. The gnats remained on the people and animals.

So the magicians told the king that the power of God had done this. But the king was stubborn and refused to listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

But I will not treat the Israelites the same as the Egyptian people. There will not be any flies in the land of Goshen, where my people live. By this you will know that I, the Lord , am in this land.

But Moses said, "It wouldn't be right to do that, because the Egyptians hate the sacrifices we offer to the Lord our God. If they see us offering sacrifices they hate, they will throw stones at us and kill us.

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."

Moses said, "I will leave and pray to the Lord , and he will take the flies away from you, your officers, and your people tomorrow. But do not try to trick us again. Do not stop the people from going to offer sacrifices to the Lord ."

But the king became stubborn again and did not let the people go.

But the Lord will treat Israel's animals differently from the animals of Egypt. None of the animals that belong to the Israelites will die.

The next day the Lord did as he promised. All the farm animals in Egypt died, but none of the animals belonging to Israelites died.