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And they said to them, "May Yahweh look upon you and judge, for you have made us a foul smell in Pharaoh's sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.

So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their weakness of spirit and hard slavery.

They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron.

So Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, thus they did.

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

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as Yahweh had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.

And each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

And you shall say to him, ‘Yahweh, 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."

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and on your people and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

And the magicians did the same with their secret arts; they caused the frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat Yahweh that He may cause the frogs to depart from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."

And Moses said to Pharaoh, "May the honor be yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses, that they may remain only in the Nile?"

And the frogs will depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they will remain only in the Nile."

So they piled them in heaps, and the land became foul.

And they did so; and 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 through all the land of Egypt.

Then the magicians did the same with their secret arts in order to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.