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10:1 Then Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them

² that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Mitzrites and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am Yahuwah."

³ So Mosheh and Aharon went to Pharaoh and said to him, "This is what Yahuwah, the Elohim of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

⁴ If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

⁵ They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.

⁶ They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Mitzrites-- something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.'" Then Mosheh turned and left Pharaoh.

⁷ Pharaoh's officials said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship Yahuwah their Elohim. Do you not yet realize that Mitzrayim is ruined?"

⁸ Then Mosheh and Aharon were brought back to Pharaoh. "Go, worship Yahuwah your Elohim," he said. "But just who will be going?"

⁹ Mosheh answered, "We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to Yahuwah."

¹⁰ Pharaoh said, "Yahuwah be with you-- if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.

¹¹ No! Have only the men go; and worship Yahuwah, since that's what you have been asking for." Then Mosheh and Aharon were driven out of Pharaoh's presence.

¹² And Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Stretch out your hand over Mitzrayim so that locusts will swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail."

¹³ So Mosheh stretched out his staff over Mitzrayim, and Yahuwah made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

¹⁴ they invaded all Mitzrayim and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.

¹⁵ They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail-- everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Mitzrayim.

¹⁶ Pharaoh quickly summoned Mosheh and Aharon and said, "I have sinned against Yahuwah your Elohim and against you.

¹⁷ Now forgive my sin once more and pray to Yahuwah your Elohim to take this deadly plague away from me."

¹⁸ Mosheh then left Pharaoh and prayed to Yahuwah.

¹⁹ And Yahuwah changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea. Not a locust was left anywhere in Mitzrayim.

²⁰ But Yahuwah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the sons of Yisrael go.

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

²¹ Then Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Mitzrayim-- darkness that can be felt."

²² So Mosheh stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Mitzrites for three days.

²³ No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Yet all the sons of Yisrael had light in the places where they lived.

²⁴ Then Pharaoh summoned Mosheh and said, "Go, worship Yahuwah. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind."

²⁵ But Mosheh said, "You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to Yahuwah our Elohim.

²⁶ Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping Yahuwah our Elohim, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship Yahuwah."

²⁷ But Yahuwah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let them go.

²⁸ Pharaoh said to Mosheh, "Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die."

²⁹ "Just as you say," Mosheh replied, "I will never appear before you again."

Mosheh Warns Pharaoh of Final Plague

11:1 Now Yahuwah had said to Mosheh, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitzrites. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.

² Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold."

³ (Yahuwah made the Mitzrites favorably disposed toward the people, and Mosheh himself was highly regarded in Mitzrayim by Pharaoh's officials and by the people.)

⁴ So Mosheh said, "This is what Yahuwah says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Mitzrayim.

⁵ Every firstborn son in Mitzrayim will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

⁶ There will be loud wailing throughout Mitzrayim-- worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.

⁷ But among the sons of Yisrael not a dog will bark at any man or animal.' Then you will know that Yahuwah makes a distinction between Mitzrayim and Yisrael.

⁸ All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will leave." Then Mosheh, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

⁹ Yahuwah had said to Mosheh, "Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you-- so that my wonders may be multiplied in Mitzrayim."

¹⁰ Mosheh and Aharon performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahuwah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the sons of Yisrael go out of his country.

Instructions for Pesach

12:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh and Aharon in Mitzrayim,

² "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

³ Tell the whole community of Yisrael that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

⁴ If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.

⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Yisrael must slaughter them at twilight.

⁷ Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

⁸ That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

⁹ Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire-- head, legs and inner parts.

¹⁰ Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is Yahuwah's Pesach.

¹² "On that same night I will pass through Mitzrayim and strike down every firstborn-- both men and animals-- and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Mitzrayim. I am Yahuwah.

¹³ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Mitzrayim.

¹⁴ "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to Yahuwah-- a lasting ordinance.

¹⁵ For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Yisrael.

¹⁶ On the first day hold a set apart assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat-- that is all you may do.

¹⁷ "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Mitzrayim. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

¹⁸ In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Yisrael, whether he is an alien or native-born.

²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."

²¹ Then Mosheh summoned all the elders of Yisrael and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Pesach lamb.

²² Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

²³ When Yahuwah goes through the land to strike down the Mitzrites, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

²⁴ "Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.

²⁵ When you enter the land that Yahuwah will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

²⁶ And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'

²⁷ then tell them, 'It is the Pesach sacrifice to Yahuwah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Yisrael in Mitzrayim and spared our homes when he struck down the Mitzrites.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

²⁸ The sons of Yisrael did just what Yahuwah commanded Mosheh and Aharon.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

²⁹ At midnight Yahuwah struck down all the firstborn in Mitzrayim, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.

³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Mitzrites got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Mitzrayim, for there was not a house without someone dead.

³¹ During the night Pharaoh summoned Mosheh and Aharon and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the sons of Yisrael! Go, worship Yahuwah as you have requested.

³² Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me."

The Exodus

33 The Mitzrites urged the people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all die!"

³⁴ So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.

³⁵ The sons of Yisrael did as Mosheh instructed and asked the Mitzrites for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

³⁶ Yahuwah had made the Mitzrites favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Mitzrites.

³⁷ The sons of Yisrael journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

³⁸ Many other people went up with them, as well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

³⁹ With the dough they had brought from Mitzrayim, they baked cakes of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Mitzrayim and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.

⁴⁰ Now the length of time the Yisraelite people lived in Mitzrayim was 430 years.

⁴¹ At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all Yahuwah's divisions left Mitzrayim.

⁴² Because Yahuwah kept vigil that night to bring them out of Mitzrayim, on this night all the sons of Yisrael are to keep vigil to honor Yahuwah for the generations to come.

Statutes for the Pesach

⁴³ Yahuwah said to Mosheh and Aharon, "These are the regulations for the Pesach: "No foreigner is to eat of it.

⁴⁴ Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him,

⁴⁵ but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it.

⁴⁶ "It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

⁴⁷ The whole community of Yisrael must celebrate it.

⁴⁸ "An alien living among you who wants to celebrate Yahuwah's Pesach must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.

⁴⁹ The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you."

⁵⁰ All the sons of Yisrael did just what Yahuwah had commanded Mosheh and Aharon.

⁵¹ And on that very day Yahuwah brought the sons of Yisrael out of Mitzrayim by their divisions.

Setting Apart of the Firstborn

13:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

² "Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the sons of Yisrael belongs to me, whether man or animal."

³ Then Mosheh said to the people, "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Mitzrayim, out of the land of slavery, because Yahuwah brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

⁴ Today, in the month of the Aviv, you are leaving.

⁵ When Yahuwah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Yebusites-- the land he swore to your forefathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey-- you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

⁶ For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to Yahuwah.

⁷ Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

⁸ On that day tell your son, 'I do this because of what Yahuwah did for me when I came out of Mitzrayim.'

⁹ This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the law of Yahuwah is to be on your lips. For Yahuwah brought you out of Mitzrayim with his mighty hand.

¹⁰ You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.

¹¹ "After Yahuwah brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your forefathers,

¹² you are to give over to Yahuwah the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to Yahuwah.

¹³ Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.

¹⁴ "In days to come, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand Yahuwah brought us out of Mitzrayim, out of the land of slavery.

¹⁵ When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahuwah killed every firstborn in Mitzrayim, both man and animal. This is why I sacrifice to Yahuwah the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.'

¹⁶ And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that Yahuwah brought us out of Mitzrayim with his mighty hand."

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