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And Moses answered and said, And, behold, they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice. For they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you.

so that they may believe that Jehovah the God of their fathers has appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And it shall be, if they will not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the latter sign.

And it shall be, if they will not believe these two signs also, and will not listen to your voice, you shall take of the water of the Nile and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the Nile shall become blood onthe dry land.

And Moses went and returned to his father-in-law Jethro, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

And the people believed. And they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction. And they bowed and worshiped.

And afterward Moses and Aaron came in and said to Pharaoh, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Send away My people, and they shall feast to Me in the wilderness.

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, that He not strike us with plague or with sword.

You shall not go on giving straw to the people to make bricks, as yesterday and the third day. They shall go and pick up straw for themselves.

And the fixed number of bricks which they were making yesterday and the third day you shall put on them. You shall not diminish from it. For they are idle; so they are crying,saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to ourGod.

Let the bondage be heavy on the men, that they may work in it, and may not trust in the lying words.

No straw is given to your slaves, and they are saying to us, Make bricks. And, behold, your slaves are beaten, but your people are at fault.

And they met Moses and Aaron standing to meet them when they came from Pharaoh.

And they said to them, May Jehovah look on you and judge, you who have made our odor to stink in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hands to kill us.

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

And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And they did not listen to Moses, from anguish of spirit and from hard bondage.

And Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded them, so they did.

And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron was a son of eighty three years when they spoke to Pharaoh.

And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants. And it became a snake.

And Pharaoh also called wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the priests of Egypt, also performed by their secret arts.