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He will speak to the people for you. He will serve as a mouth for you, and you will serve as God to him.

Now in Midian the Lord told Moses, “Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”

“Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers—that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

So Moses went back to the Lord and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me?

Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in your name he has caused trouble for this people, and you haven’t rescued your people at all.”

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.

After Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the Lord for help concerning the frogs that he had brought against Pharaoh.

Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.

For this time I am about to send all my plagues against you, your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like me on the whole earth.

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you my power and to make my name known on the whole earth.

Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “The Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the guilty ones.

But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them,

He said to them, “The Lord would have to be with you if I would ever let you and your families go! Look out—you’re heading for trouble.

Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.