<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whoever strikes someone<n id="2" /> so that he dies<n id="3" /> must surely be put to death.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whoever strikes<n id="1" /> his father or his mother must surely be put to death.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Seven full days passed<n id="2" /> after the <sc>Lordsc> struck<n id="3" /> the Nile.

<p class="bodytext">(Now the<n id="1" /> flax and the barley were struck<n id="2" /> by the hail,<n id="3" /> for the barley had ripened<n id="4" /> and the flax<n id="5" /> was in bud.

But the wheat and the spelt<n id="1" /> were not struck, for they are later crops.)<n id="2" />p>

He looked this way and that<n id="1" /> and saw that no one was there,<n id="2" /> and then he attacked<n id="3" /> the Egyptian and concealed the body<n id="4" /> in the sand.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If a thief is caught<n id="1" /> breaking in<n id="2" /> and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.<n id="3" />

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both<n id="1" /> people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows<n id="2" /> in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In those days,<n id="2" /> when<n id="3" /> Moses had grown up, he went out to his people<n id="4" /> and observed<n id="5" /> their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking<n id="6" /> a Hebrew man, one of his own people.<n id="7" />

When he went out<n id="1" /> the next day,<n id="2" /> there were<n id="3" /> two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Why are you attacking<n id="5" /> your fellow Hebrew?&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

So I will extend my hand<n id="1" /> and strike Egypt with all my wonders<n id="2" /> that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.<n id="3" />p>

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Make bricks!&#8217; Your servants are even<n id="2" /> being beaten, but the fault<n id="3" /> is with your people.&#8221;p>

For by now I could have stretched out<n id="1" /> my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed<n id="2" /> from the earth.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,<n id="1" />

and then<n id="1" /> if he gets up and walks about<n id="2" /> outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay<n id="3" /> for the injured person&#8217;s<n id="4" /> loss of time<n id="5" /> and see to it that he is fully healed.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she<n id="1" /> dies as a result of the blow,<n id="2" /> he will surely be punished.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it,<n id="1" /> he will let the servant<n id="2" /> go free<n id="3" /> as compensation for the eye.

The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh&#8217;s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past &#8211; both yesterday and today?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;By this you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>: I am going to strike<n id="1" /> the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.<n id="2" />

Moses and Aaron did so,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded. Moses raised<n id="2" /> the staff<n id="3" /> and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes<n id="4" /> of Pharaoh and his servants,<n id="5" /> and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.<n id="6" />