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And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out from Egypt?"

But Moses said to God, "Look, if I go to the Israelites and I say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they say to me, ‘What is his name?' then what shall I say to them?"

But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless compelled by a strong hand.

And Moses answered, and he said, "And if they do not believe me and they do not listen to my voice, but they say, ‘Yahweh did not appear to you?'"

And I said to you, "Release my son and let him serve me," but you refused to release him. Look, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.'"

But Zipporah took a flint knife, and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

But the quota of the bricks that they were making before you must require of them. You must not reduce from it, because they are lazy. Therefore they are crying out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, ‘Make bricks!' and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your people."

And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks."

And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai, but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

but also I myself heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant.

And Moses spoke thus to the Israelites, but they did not listen to Moses, because of discouragement and because of hard work.

And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals.

And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God." But the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

But if you are not about to release my people, look, I am about to send out flies among you and among your servants and among your people and in your houses; and the houses of Egypt will fill up with the flies and also the ground that they are on.