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They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors'—in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians."

They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to reside as aliens in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen."

Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's.

Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel because you went up onto your father's bed; then you defiled it—you went up onto my couch!

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, "because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."

Moses told this to the Israelites; but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.

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.

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

Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the Lord 's festival to celebrate."

They baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt; it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the Lord brought you out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten.

You shall tell your child on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter. That is why it was called Marah.

and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord , because he has heard your complaining against the Lord . For what are we, that you complain against us?"