<p class="poetry">He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">including both men and animals.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, rescue me from wicked men!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Protect me from violent men,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is a generation whose teeth are like<n id="1" /> swords<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and whose molars<n id="3" /> are like knivesp> <p class="poetry">to devour<n id="4" /> the poor from the earthp> <p class="poetry">and the needy from among the human race.p>

<p class="poetry">Look, all his associates<n id="1" /> will be put to shame;p> <p class="poetry">the craftsmen are mere humans.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them all assemble and take their stand!p> <p class="poetry">They will panic and be put to shame.p>

<p class="poetry">Even if they raise their children,p> <p class="poetry">I will take away every last one of them.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Woe to them!p> <p class="poetry">For I will turn away from them.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them together like sheep in a fold,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a flock in the middle of a pasture;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The shields of his warriors are dyed red;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The metal fittings<n id="3" /> of the chariots<n id="4" /> shinep> <p class="poetry">like<n id="5" /> fire<n id="6" /> on the day of battle;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">the soldiers brandish<n id="8" /> their spears.<n id="9" />p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth &#8211; everything from humankind to animals,<n id="1" /> including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.&#8221;p>

So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> destroyed<n id="2" /> every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky.<n id="3" /> They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.<n id="4" />

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.

<p class="bodytext">I will pass through<n id="1" /> the land of Egypt in the same<n id="2" /> night, and I will attack<n id="3" /> all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals,<n id="4" /> and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.<n id="5" /> I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the <sc>Lordsc>.

because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed<n id="1" /> all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing.<n id="1" /> It piled up far upstream<n id="2" /> at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea).<n id="3" /> The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">For a nation from the north<n id="1" /> will attack Babylon.p> <p class="poetry">It will lay her land waste.p> <p class="poetry">People and animals will flee out of it.p> <p class="poetry">No one will inhabit it.&#8217;p>