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But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord , that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord , and I will not let Israel go."

But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Get to your labors!"

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'

Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"

Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks."

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘The Lord ' I did not make myself known to them.

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

But Moses spoke to the Lord , "The Israelites have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?"

But Moses said in the Lord 's presence, "Since I am a poor speaker, why would Pharaoh listen to me?"

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs.

Say to him, ‘The Lord , the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness." But until now you have not listened.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought frogs up on the land of Egypt.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

The magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, but they could not. There were gnats on both humans and animals.

And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God!" But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I the Lord am in this land.

But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for the sacrifices that we offer to the Lord our God are offensive to the Egyptians. If we offer in the sight of the Egyptians sacrifices that are offensive to them, will they not stone us?