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Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm.

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.

All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:

Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.

And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.

And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.

And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:

And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses and Aaron.

And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.

But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.