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

The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;Here<n id="1" /> is a place by me; you will station yourself<n id="2" /> on a rock.

He said<n id="1" /> to his people, &#8220;Look at<n id="2" /> the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague<n id="1" /> all your territory with frogs.<n id="2" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;I am going to send<n id="2" /> an angel<n id="3" /> before you to protect you as you journey<n id="4" /> and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.<n id="5" />

The midwives said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Because the Hebrew<n id="1" /> women are not like the Egyptian women &#8211; for the Hebrew women<n id="2" /> are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!&#8221;<n id="3" />

And now indeed<n id="1" /> the cry<n id="2" /> of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.<n id="3" />

and I said to you, &#8216;Let my son go that he may serve<n id="1" /> me,&#8217; but since you have refused to let him go,<n id="2" /> I will surely kill<n id="3" /> your son, your firstborn!&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

Go to Pharaoh in the morning when<n id="1" /> he goes out to the water. Position yourself<n id="2" /> to meet him by the edge of the Nile,<n id="3" /> and take<n id="4" /> in your hand the staff<n id="5" /> that was turned into a snake.

then the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> will surely bring<n id="1" /> a very terrible plague<n id="2" /> on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels,<n id="3" /> the herds, and the flocks.

So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See,<n id="1" /> my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of<n id="1" /> their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses said<n id="1" /> to God, &#8220;If<n id="2" /> I go to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;The God of your fathers has sent me to you,&#8217; and they ask me, &#8216;What is his name?&#8217;<n id="3" /> &#8211; what should I say<n id="4" /> to them?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> became angry with<n id="1" /> Moses, and he said, &#8220;What about<n id="2" /> your brother Aaron the Levite?<n id="3" /> I know that he can speak very well.<n id="4" /> Moreover, he is coming<n id="5" /> to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.<n id="6" />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" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> said to Moses, &#8220;Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Release my people that they may serve me!

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;I am going to go out<n id="1" /> from you and pray to the <sc>Lordsc>, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again<n id="2" /> by not releasing<n id="3" /> the people to sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come<n id="1" /> to you in a dense cloud,<n id="2" /> so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses told the words of the people to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

So Moses took the blood and splashed it on<n id="1" /> the people and said, &#8220;This is the blood of the covenant<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has made with you in accordance with all these words.&#8221;p>

Moreover,<n id="1" /> I have also given him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and I have given ability to all the specially skilled,<n id="2" /> that they may make<n id="3" /> everything I have commanded you: