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But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

"Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land."

Amram took to wife Joch'ebed his father's sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years.

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

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not lay 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; as the LORD had said.

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

And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies.

Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.

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

Then he who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses;

but he who did not regard the word of the LORD left his slaves and his cattle in the field.

Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt;

So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.