Study Desk

You may tell your son and your grandson how I made it very hard for the Egyptians and how I did My powerful works among them. So you may know that I am the Lord."

They will cover the land, so no one will be able to see the ground. They will eat what is left for you after the hail. They will eat every tree of yours that grows in the field.

Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old, our sons and our daughters, and our flocks and cattle. For we must make a special supper to the Lord."

No! You men go and worship the Lord. For that is what you want." And Moses and Aaron were sent away from Pharaoh.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Put out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts to come upon the land of Egypt. They will eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left."

For they covered the whole land and made it dark. They ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in a hurry. He said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.

So Moses put out his hand toward the sky. And there was darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

The Egyptians did not see each other. No one got up from his place for three days. But all the people of Israel had light in their homes.

But Moses said, "You must let us have gifts to give in worship and gifts for burning, so we may give them to the Lord our God.

So our animals will go with us also. Not a foot of an animal will be left behind. For we will take some of them to use as we worship the Lord our God. And until we are there, we do not know which ones we will use in worshiping the Lord."

Pharaoh said to Moses, "Go away from me! Make sure that you do not see my face again! For the day you see my face again, you will die!"

Tell the people that each man should ask his neighbor and each woman ask her neighbor for things made of silver and gold."

Speak to the people of Israel when they are gathered together. Tell them that on the tenth day of this month, every man must take a lamb for those of his father's house, a lamb for each house.

If those in the house are too few to eat a lamb, let him and his nearest neighbor take the right amount for the number of people. Divide the lamb by how much each can eat.

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night. And I will kill all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will punish all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

But the blood will mark for you the houses where you live. When I see the blood I will pass over you. And no trouble will come upon you to destroy you when I punish the land of Egypt.

"This day will be for you to remember. You must remember it by having a special supper in honor to the Lord. All of you must keep it as a law forever.

You must have the special supper of bread without yeast. For on this same day I brought your family groups out of the land of Egypt. So all of you must remember this day as a law forever.

There must be no yeast found in your houses for seven days. For whoever eats anything with yeast, that person, stranger or born in the land, will be cut off from the people of Israel.