Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

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

The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around confused in the land – the desert has closed in on them.’

In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,