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And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your slaves, and from your people; they shall remain in the river only.

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

And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

And the sacred scholars did so with their magic to bring forth lice, but they could not: and there were lice on man and on beast.

And Yahweh said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; look, he comes forth to the water; and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For if you will not let my people go, look, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your slaves, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we shall sacrifice something disgusting of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God: look, if we shall sacrifice something disgusting of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?

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

And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with sores on man and on beast.

And Yahweh said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Now therefore send, hurry in your cattle and all that you have in the field; [for] all of man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.

But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field:

and your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your slaves, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh's slaves said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God: Don't you know yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And Yahweh said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and no green thing remained, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses wherein they shall eat it.