he said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>. Tell<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt all that<n id="3" /> I am telling<n id="4" /> you.&#8221;

You are to speak<n id="1" /> everything I command you,<n id="2" /> and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release<n id="3" /> the Israelites from his land.

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.

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.

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> because of<n id="2" /> the frogs that he had brought on<n id="3" /> Pharaoh.

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>

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>

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.

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>

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down<n id="1" /> about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred<n id="2" /> in Egypt from the day it was founded<n id="3" /> until now.

but those<n id="1" /> who did not take<n id="2" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> seriously left their servants and their cattle<n id="3" /> in the field.p>

Hail fell<n id="1" /> and fire mingled<n id="2" /> with the hail; the hail was so severe<n id="3" /> that there had not been any like it<n id="4" /> in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

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>

<p class="bodytext">He said to them, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will need to be with you<n id="1" /> if I release you and your dependents!<n id="2" /> Watch out!<n id="3" /> Trouble is right in front of you!<n id="4" />

There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been,<n id="1" /> nor ever will be again.<n id="2" />

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

<p class="bodytext">So all the Israelites did exactly as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses and Aaron.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> brings you<n id="1" /> into the land of the Canaanites,<n id="2" /> as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it<n id="3" /> to you,

then you must give over<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first offspring of every womb.<n id="2" /> Every firstling<n id="3" /> of a beast that you have<n id="4" /> &#8211; the males will be the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s.<n id="5" />