Exodus:8-10
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
Go unto Pharaoh ,
and say unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Let my people go ,
that they may serve me .
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And if thou refuse to let them go ,
behold ,
I will smite all thy borders with frogs :
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And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly ,
which shall go up and come into thine house ,
and into thy bedchamber ,
and upon thy bed ,
and into the house of thy servants ,
and upon thy people ,
and into thine ovens ,
and into thy kneadingtroughs :
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And the frogs shall come up both on thee ,
and upon thy people ,
and upon all thy servants .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
Say unto Aaron ,
Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams ,
over the rivers ,
and over the ponds ,
and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt .
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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt ;
and the frogs came up ,
and covered the land of Egypt .
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And the magicians did so with their enchantments ,
and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt .
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron ,
and said ,
Intreat the LORD ,
that he may take away the frogs from me ,
and from my people ;
and I will let the people go ,
that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD .
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And Moses said unto Pharaoh ,
Glory over me :
when shall I intreat for thee ,
and for thy servants ,
and for thy people ,
to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses ,
that they may remain in the river only ?
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And he said ,
To morrow .
And he said ,
Be it according to thy word :
that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God .
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And the frogs shall depart from thee ,
and from thy houses ,
and from thy servants ,
and from thy people ;
they shall remain in the river only .
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And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh :
and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh .
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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses ;
and the frogs died out of the houses ,
out of the villages ,
and out of the fields .
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And they gathered them together upon heaps :
and the land stank .
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But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite ,
he hardened his heart ,
and hearkened not unto them ;
as the LORD had said .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Say unto Aaron ,
Stretch out thy rod ,
and smite the dust of the land ,
that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt .
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And they did so ;
for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod ,
and smote the dust of the earth ,
and it became lice in man ,
and in beast ;
all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt .
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And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice ,
but they could not :
so there were lice upon man ,
and upon beast .
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Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh ,
This is the finger of God :
and Pharaoh '
s heart was hardened ,
and he hearkened not unto them ;
as the LORD had said .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Rise up early in the morning ,
and stand before Pharaoh ;
lo ,
he cometh forth to the water ;
and say unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Let my people go ,
that they may serve me .
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Else ,
if thou wilt not let my people go ,
behold ,
I will send swarms of flies upon thee ,
and upon thy servants ,
and upon thy people ,
and into thy houses :
and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies ,
and also the ground whereon they are .
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And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen ,
in which my people dwell ,
that no swarms of flies shall be there ;
to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth .
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And I will put a division between my people and thy people :
to morrow shall this sign be .
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And the LORD did so ;
and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh ,
and into his servants '
houses ,
and into all the land of Egypt :
the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies .
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And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron ,
and said ,
Go ye ,
sacrifice to your God in the land .
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And Moses said ,
It is not meet so to do ;
for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God :
lo ,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes ,
and will they not stone us ?
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We will go three days '
journey into the wilderness ,
and sacrifice to the LORD our God ,
as he shall command us .
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And Pharaoh said ,
I will let you go ,
that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness ;
only ye shall not go very far away :
intreat for me .
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And Moses said ,
Behold ,
I go out from thee ,
and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh ,
from his servants ,
and from his people ,
to morrow :
but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD .
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And Moses went out from Pharaoh ,
and intreated the LORD .
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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses ;
and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh ,
from his servants ,
and from his people ;
there remained not one .
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And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also ,
neither would he let the people go .
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Then the LORD said unto Moses ,
Go in unto Pharaoh ,
and tell him ,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews ,
Let my people go ,
that they may serve me .
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For if thou refuse to let them go ,
and wilt hold them still ,
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Behold ,
the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field ,
upon the horses ,
upon the asses ,
upon the camels ,
upon the oxen ,
and upon the sheep :
there shall be a very grievous murrain .
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And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt :
and there shall nothing die of all that is the children '
s of Israel .
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And the LORD appointed a set time ,
saying ,
To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land .
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And the LORD did that thing on the morrow ,
and all the cattle of Egypt died :
but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one .
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And Pharaoh sent ,
and ,
behold ,
there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead .
And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened ,
and he did not let the people go .
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And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron ,
Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace ,
and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh .
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And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt ,
and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man ,
and upon beast ,
throughout all the land of Egypt .
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And they took ashes of the furnace ,
and stood before Pharaoh ;
and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven ;
and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man ,
and upon beast .
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And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils ;
for the boil was upon the magicians ,
and upon all the Egyptians .
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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh ,
and he hearkened not unto them ;
as the LORD had spoken unto Moses .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Rise up early in the morning ,
and stand before Pharaoh ,
and say unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews ,
Let my people go ,
that they may serve me .
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For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart ,
and upon thy servants ,
and upon thy people ;
that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth .
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For now I will stretch out my hand ,
that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence ;
and thou shalt be cut off from the earth .
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And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up ,
for to shew in thee my power ;
and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth .
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As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people ,
that thou wilt not let them go ?
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Behold ,
to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail ,
such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now .
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Send therefore now ,
and gather thy cattle ,
and all that thou hast in the field ;
for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field ,
and shall not be brought home ,
the hail shall come down upon them ,
and they shall die .
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He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses :
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And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven ,
that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt ,
upon man ,
and upon beast ,
and upon every herb of the field ,
throughout the land of Egypt .
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And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven :
and the LORD sent thunder and hail ,
and the fire ran along upon the ground ;
and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt .
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So there was hail ,
and fire mingled with the hail ,
very grievous ,
such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation .
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And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field ,
both man and beast ;
and the hail smote every herb of the field ,
and brake every tree of the field .
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Only in the land of Goshen ,
where the children of Israel were ,
was there no hail .
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And Pharaoh sent ,
and called for Moses and Aaron ,
and said unto them ,
I have sinned this time :
the LORD is righteous ,
and I and my people are wicked .
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Intreat the LORD (
for it is enough )
that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail ;
and I will let you go ,
and ye shall stay no longer .
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And Moses said unto him ,
As soon as I am gone out of the city ,
I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD ;
and the thunder shall cease ,
neither shall there be any more hail ;
that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD '
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But as for thee and thy servants ,
I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God .
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And the flax and the barley was smitten :
for the barley was in the ear ,
and the flax was bolled .
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But the wheat and the rie were not smitten :
for they were not grown up .
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And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh ,
and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD :
and the thunders and hail ceased ,
and the rain was not poured upon the earth .
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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased ,
he sinned yet more ,
and hardened his heart ,
he and his servants .
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And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened ,
neither would he let the children of Israel go ;
as the LORD had spoken by Moses .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Go in unto Pharaoh :
for I have hardened his heart ,
and the heart of his servants ,
that I might shew these my signs before him :
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And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son ,
and of thy son '
s son ,
what things I have wrought in Egypt ,
and my signs which I have done among them ;
that ye may know how that I am the LORD .
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And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews ,
How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me ?
let my people go ,
that they may serve me .
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Else ,
if thou refuse to let my people go ,
behold ,
to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast :
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And they shall cover the face of the earth ,
that one cannot be able to see the earth :
and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped ,
which remaineth unto you from the hail ,
and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field :
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And they shall fill thy houses ,
and the houses of all thy servants ,
and the houses of all the Egyptians ;
which neither thy fathers ,
nor thy fathers '
fathers have seen ,
since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day .
And he turned himself ,
and went out from Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh '
s servants said unto him ,
How long shall this man be a snare unto us ?
let the men go ,
that they may serve the LORD their God :
knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed ?
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And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh :
and he said unto them ,
Go ,
serve the LORD your God :
but who are they that shall go ?
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And Moses said ,
We will go with our young and with our old ,
with our sons and with our daughters ,
with our flocks and with our herds will we go ;
for we must hold a feast unto the LORD .
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And he said unto them ,
Let the LORD be so with you ,
as I will let you go ,
and your little ones :
look to it ;
for evil is before you .
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Not so :
go now ye that are men ,
and serve the LORD ;
for that ye did desire .
And they were driven out from Pharaoh '
s presence .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts ,
that they may come up upon the land of Egypt ,
and eat every herb of the land ,
even all that the hail hath left .
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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt ,
and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day ,
and all that night ;
and when it was morning ,
the east wind brought the locusts .
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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt ,
and rested in all the coasts of Egypt :
very grievous were they ;
before them there were no such locusts as they ,
neither after them shall be such .
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For they covered the face of the whole earth ,
so that the land was darkened ;
and they did eat every herb of the land ,
and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left :
and there remained not any green thing in the trees ,
or in the herbs of the field ,
through all the land of Egypt .
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste ;
and he said ,
I have sinned against the LORD your God ,
and against you .
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Now therefore forgive ,
I pray thee ,
my sin only this once ,
and intreat the LORD your God ,
that he may take away from me this death only .
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And he went out from Pharaoh ,
and intreated the LORD .
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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind ,
which took away the locusts ,
and cast them into the Red sea ;
there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt .
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But the LORD hardened Pharaoh '
s heart ,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Stretch out thine hand toward heaven ,
that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt ,
even darkness which may be felt .
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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven ;
and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days :
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They saw not one another ,
neither rose any from his place for three days :
but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings .
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And Pharaoh called unto Moses ,
and said ,
Go ye ,
serve the LORD ;
only let your flocks and your herds be stayed :
let your little ones also go with you .
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And Moses said ,
Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings ,
that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God .
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Our cattle also shall go with us ;
there shall not an hoof be left behind ;
for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God ;
and we know not with what we must serve the LORD ,
until we come thither .
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But the LORD hardened Pharaoh '
s heart ,
and he would not let them go .
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And Pharaoh said unto him ,
Get thee from me ,
take heed to thyself ,
see my face no more ;
for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die .
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And Moses said ,
Thou hast spoken well ,
I will see thy face again no more .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh ,
and upon Egypt ;
afterwards he will let you go hence :
when he shall let you go ,
he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether .