he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron – just as the Lord had predicted.

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

The magicians said to Pharaoh, “It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

then the hand of the Lord will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

but those who did not take the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.

He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

then you must give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have – the males will be the Lord’s.