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Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We with our land will become slaves to Pharaoh; just give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."

Dan shall be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider falls backward.

My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return."

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

They will listen to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; let us now go a three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'

"so that they may believe that the Lord , the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

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

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.'"

Say to him, ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness." But until now you have not listened.

The Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water—so that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord : Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "As you say! So that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God,

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats throughout the whole land of Egypt.'"

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord : Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I the Lord am in this land.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that belongs to the Israelites.'"

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.