<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses told this<n id="2" /> to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him<n id="3" /> because of their discouragement<n id="4" /> and hard labor.

When the fish<n id="1" /> that were in the Nile died, the Nile began<n id="2" /> to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood<n id="3" /> everywhere in the land of Egypt!

But the magicians of Egypt did the same<n id="1" /> by their secret arts, and so<n id="2" /> Pharaoh&#8217;s heart remained hard,<n id="3" /> and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron<n id="4" /> &#8211; just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief,<n id="1" /> he hardened<n id="2" /> his heart and did not listen to them, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted.<n id="3" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the magicians attempted<n id="2" /> to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

The magicians said<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, &#8220;It is the finger<n id="2" /> of God!&#8221; But Pharaoh&#8217;s heart remained hard,<n id="3" /> and he did not listen to them, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted.p>

But Pharaoh hardened<n id="1" /> his heart this time also and did not release the people.p>

But the Lord will distinguish<n id="1" /> between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing<n id="2" /> will die of all that the Israelites have.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate,<n id="1" /> and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh&#8217;s heart remained hard,<n id="2" /> and he did not release the people.p>

<p class="bodytext">The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

But the <sc>Lordsc> hardened<n id="1" /> Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted to Moses.p>

Pray to the <sc>Lordsc>, for the mighty<n id="1" /> thunderings and hail are too much!<n id="2" /> I will release you and you will stay no longer.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

So Pharaoh&#8217;s heart remained hard,<n id="1" /> and he did not release the Israelites, as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted through Moses.p>

No one<n id="1" /> could see<n id="2" /> another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses led Israel to journey<n id="2" /> away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days<n id="3" /> into the desert, and found no water.

Then they came to Marah,<n id="1" /> but they were not able to drink<n id="2" /> the waters of Marah, because<n id="3" /> they were bitter.<n id="4" /> (That is<n id="5" /> why its name was<n id="6" /> Marah.)p>

But they did not listen to Moses; some<n id="1" /> kept part of it until morning, and it was full<n id="2" /> of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.

<p class="bodytext">So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,