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They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all."

But the Lord said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

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

But Moses said to the Lord , "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?"

For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

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

Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."

But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for me."

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

And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

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

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them."'"

Plead with the Lord , for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

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

(The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)