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For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aharon's rod swallowed up their rods.

All the Mitzrim dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

Then Par`oh called for Moshe and Aharon, and said, "Entreat the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD."

Moshe said to Par`oh, "I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only."

Par`oh called for Moshe and for Aharon, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"

Moshe said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Mitzrim to the LORD our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Mitzrim before their eyes, and won't they stone us?

Par`oh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."

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

The magicians couldn't stand before Moshe because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Mitzrim.

For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the eretz.

For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the eretz;

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the eretz;

Par`oh sent, and called for Moshe and Aharon, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear the LORD God."

The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.

The LORD said to Moshe, "Go in to Par`oh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,

and they shall cover the surface of the eretz, so that one won't be able to see the eretz. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

Moshe said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."