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But he said, "Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will."

The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

"So I said to you, 'Let My son go that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn."'"

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go."

But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labors!"

"But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall impose on them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, therefore they cry out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

'You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but none of your labor will be reduced.'"

"There is no straw given to your servants, yet they keep saying to us, 'Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are being beaten; but it is the fault of your own people."

But he said, "You are lazy, very lazy; therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.

So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.

But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?"

But Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?"

"But I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

"You shall say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now."

But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

"But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.