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God also said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord , the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': This is my name forever, and this my title for all generations.

each woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman living in the neighbor's house for jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians."

He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him.

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt; for all those who were seeking your life are dead."

"You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks."

I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord .'"

And all the Egyptians had to dig along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the river.

Moses said to Pharaoh, "Kindly tell me when I am to pray for you and for your officials and for your people, that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."

For if you will not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you, your officials, and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies; so also the land where they live.

But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for the sacrifices that we offer to the Lord our God are offensive to the Egyptians. If we offer in the sight of the Egyptians sacrifices that are offensive to them, will they not stone us?

So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, provided you do not go very far away. Pray for me."

For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils afflicted the magicians as well as all the Egyptians.

For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

But as for you and your officials, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God."

(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.