<p class="bodytext">You are to tell your son<n id="1" /> on that day,<n id="2" /> &#8216;It is<n id="3" /> because of what<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> did for me when I came out of Egypt.&#8217;

He took six hundred select<n id="1" /> chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt,<n id="2" /> and officers<n id="3" /> on all of them.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In the third month after the Israelites went out<n id="2" /> from the land of Egypt, on the very day,<n id="3" /> they came to the Desert of Sinai.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, am your God,<n id="2" /> who brought you<n id="3" /> from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not wrong<n id="1" /> a foreigner<n id="2" /> nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke<n id="1" /> to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge<n id="2" /> for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.p>

Pharaoh will not listen to you.<n id="1" /> I will reach into<n id="2" /> Egypt and bring out my regiments,<n id="3" /> my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Extend your hand toward the sky<n id="1" /> that there may be<n id="2" /> hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals,<n id="3" /> and on everything that grows<n id="4" /> in the field in the land of Egypt.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for<n id="1" /> the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows<n id="2" /> in the ground, everything that the hail has left.&#8221;

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory<n id="1" /> of Egypt. It was very severe;<n id="2" /> there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.<n id="3" />

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast &#8211; because they were thrust out<n id="1" /> of Egypt and were not able to delay, they<n id="2" /> could not prepare<n id="3" /> food for themselves either.p>

But<n id="1" /> the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the king of Egypt summoned<n id="1" /> the midwives and said to them, &#8220;Why have you done this and let the boys live?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I have surely seen<n id="1" /> the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Moses said<n id="1" /> to God,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Who am I, that I should go<n id="3" /> to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?&#8221;

and I have promised<n id="1" /> that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,<n id="2" /> to a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8221;&#8217;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses in Midian, &#8220;Go back<n id="1" /> to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then Moses took<n id="1" /> his wife and sons<n id="2" /> and put them on a donkey and headed back<n id="3" /> to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

The king of Egypt said to them, &#8220;Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work?<n id="1" /> Return to your labor!&#8221;

I<n id="1" /> have also heard<n id="2" /> the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving,<n id="3" /> and I have remembered my covenant.<n id="4" />