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You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.

Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs.

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood,

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and gnats came on humans and animals alike; all the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the whole land of Egypt.

The Lord did so, and great swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his officials' houses; in all of Egypt the land was ruined because of the flies.

Then Moses said, "As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people; only do not let Pharaoh again deal falsely by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord ."

And the Lord did as Moses asked: he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people; not one remained.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and would not let the people go.

Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;

So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and stretched out his hands to the Lord ; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned once more and hardened his heart, he and his officials.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his officials, in order that I may show these signs of mine among them,

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; when morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Tell the people that every man is to ask his neighbor and every woman is to ask her neighbor for objects of silver and gold."

Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the livestock.