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"But you shall impose on them the quota of bricks which they were making before; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, for that reason they cry out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

And they said to them, "May the LORD look upon you and judge you, because you have made us repulsive in Pharaoh's sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!"

"Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink from the water of the Nile.

Then the LORD did so. And thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants, and the land was laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.

But Moses said, "It is not permissible for us to do so, because we will sacrifice to the LORD our God that which is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice that which is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

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

then you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but spared our homes.'" And the people bowed low and worshiped.

"And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

Then they said to Moses, "Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt?

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter; for that reason it was named Marah.

Then he named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

and he said, "Because the LORD has sworn, the LORD will have war against Amalek from generation to generation."

Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

"You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the entire mountain quaked violently.

"If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of his unfairness to her.

"So they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

"And if any of the flesh of ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

Then the LORD struck the people with a plague, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.