and they<n id="1" /> made the Israelites serve rigorously.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei.p>

When<n id="1" /> Pharaoh got closer,<n id="2" /> the Israelites looked up,<n id="3" /> and there were the Egyptians marching after them,<n id="4" /> and they were terrified.<n id="5" /> The Israelites cried out to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="6" />

God saw<n id="1" /> the Israelites, and God understood&#8230;.<n id="2" />p>

The Israelites did so, and they gathered &#8211; some more, some less.

I will reside<n id="1" /> among the Israelites, and I will be their God,

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.p>

<p class="bodytext">So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These<n id="2" /> are the names<n id="3" /> of the sons of Israel<n id="4" /> who entered Egypt &#8211; each man with his household<n id="5" /> entered with Jacob:

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 the more the Egyptians<n id="1" /> oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread.<n id="2" /> As a result the Egyptians loathed<n id="3" /> the Israelites,

So now go, and I will send you<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.&#8221;p>

You must say<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, &#8216;Thus says<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Israel is my son, my firstborn,<n id="3" />

Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.<n id="1" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, &#8220;Why are you treating<n id="2" /> your servants this way?

&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release<n id="1" /> the Israelites from his land.&#8221;

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

But the <sc>Lordsc> hardened Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.p>

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses and Aaron.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites journeyed<n id="1" /> from Rameses<n id="2" /> to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men<n id="3" /> on foot, plus their dependants.<n id="4" />