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

and they said to them, "The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.

Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.

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

And 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 so far, you have not obeyed.

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

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

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

The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile."

And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt.

The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

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

Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.

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

So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.