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-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to the king and his people. I will make him let my people go. In fact, by my power I will force him to chase them from his land!"
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-\v 2 God also said to Moses, "I am Yahweh.
-\v 3 I am the one who appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and told them that I was God Almighty, but I did not tell them that my name was Yahweh.
-\v 4 I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan. That was the land in which they were living as foreigners.
-\v 5 Furthermore, I have heard the Israelite people groan because of the hard work that the Egyptians have been making them do as their slaves. I have thought about the covenant that I made.
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-\v 6 So tell the Israelite people that I said this: 'I am Yahweh. I will free you from the burdens of heavy work that the Egyptians have forced upon you. I will free you from being their slaves. With my great power and by punishing them very harshly, I will save you.
-\v 7 I will cause you to become my own people, and I will be your God, the one you worship. You will truly know that I am Yahweh God, the one who has freed you from the burdens of work as slaves of the Egyptians.
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-\v 8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. You will live in it forever. I, Yahweh, am promising this.'"
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-\v 9 Moses told that to the Israelite people, but they did not believe what he said. They were very sad because of the hard work they were made to do as slaves.
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-\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 11 "Go and tell the king of Egypt again that he must allow the Israelite people to leave his land!"
-\v 12 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. Even the Israelite people have not paid attention to what I told them. I am a poor speaker. So why should the king pay attention to what I tell him?"
-\v 13 But Yahweh spoke to Aaron and Moses, "Tell the Israelite people and the king of Egypt that I have called you two to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt."
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-\v 14 Now here is a list of the ancestors of Moses and Aaron.
-\p The sons of Reuben, who was Jacob's oldest son, were: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. They were ancestors of the clans that have those same names.
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-\v 15 The sons of Simeon were: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul. Shaul's mother was a woman from the land of Canaan. They also were ancestors of clans that have those same names.
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-\v 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi, in the order in which they were born: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi was 137 years old when he died.
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-\v 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei. They were ancestors of clans that have those names.
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-\v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath was 133 years old when he died.
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-\v 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. All these were the ancestors of the clans that descended from Levi, in the order in which his sons were born.
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-\v 20 Amram married his father's sister, Jochebed. She was the mother of Aaron and Moses. Amram was 137 years old when he died.
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-\v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
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-\v 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
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-\v 23 Aaron married Elisheba. She was the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon. Elisheba gave birth to four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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-\v 24 The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. They were the ancestors of the Korahite people.
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-\v 25 Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she gave birth to Phinehas. That ends the list of the families and clans that were descended from Levi.
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-\v 26 Aaron and Moses were the ones to whom Yahweh said, "Lead all the tribes of the Israelite people out of Egypt."
-\v 27 They were the ones who spoke to the king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelite people out of Egypt.
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-\v 28 On the day that Yahweh spoke to Moses in Egypt,
-\v 29 he said, "I am Yahweh. You must tell the king everything that I say to you."
-\v 30 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. I am not a good speaker. So why should the king listen to what I tell him?"
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to the king and his people. I will make him let my people go. In fact, by my power I will force him to chase them from his land!"
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+\v 2 God also said to Moses, "I am Yahweh.
+\v 3 I am the one who appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and told them that I was God Almighty, but I did not tell them that my name was Yahweh.
+\v 4 I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan. That was the land in which they were living as foreigners.
+\v 5 Furthermore, I have heard the Israelite people groan because of the hard work that the Egyptians have been making them do as their slaves. I have thought about the covenant that I made.
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+\v 6 So tell the Israelite people that I said this: 'I am Yahweh. I will free you from the burdens of heavy work that the Egyptians have forced upon you. I will free you from being their slaves. With my great power and by punishing them very harshly, I will save you.
+\v 7 I will cause you to become my own people, and I will be your God, the one you worship. You will truly know that I am Yahweh God, the one who has freed you from the burdens of work as slaves of the Egyptians.
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+\v 8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. You will live in it forever. I, Yahweh, am promising this.'"
+\p
+\v 9 Moses told that to the Israelite people, but they did not believe what he said. They were very sad because of the hard work they were made to do as slaves.
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+\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
+\v 11 "Go and tell the king of Egypt again that he must allow the Israelite people to leave his land!"
+\v 12 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. Even the Israelite people have not paid attention to what I told them. I am a poor speaker. So why should the king pay attention to what I tell him?"
+\v 13 But Yahweh spoke to Aaron and Moses, "Tell the Israelite people and the king of Egypt that I have called you two to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt."
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+\v 14 Now here is a list of the ancestors of Moses and Aaron.
+\p The sons of Reuben, who was Jacob's oldest son, were: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. They were ancestors of the clans that have those same names.
+\p
+\v 15 The sons of Simeon were: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul. Shaul's mother was a woman from the land of Canaan. They also were ancestors of clans that have those same names.
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+\v 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi, in the order in which they were born: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi was 137 years old when he died.
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+\v 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei. They were ancestors of clans that have those names.
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+\v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath was 133 years old when he died.
+\p
+\v 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. All these were the ancestors of the clans that descended from Levi, in the order in which his sons were born.
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+\v 20 Amram married his father's sister, Jochebed. She was the mother of Aaron and Moses. Amram was 137 years old when he died.
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+\v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
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+\v 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
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+\v 23 Aaron married Elisheba. She was the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon. Elisheba gave birth to four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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+\v 24 The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. They were the ancestors of the Korahite people.
+\p
+\v 25 Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she gave birth to Phinehas. That ends the list of the families and clans that were descended from Levi.
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+\v 26 Aaron and Moses were the ones to whom Yahweh said, "Lead all the tribes of the Israelite people out of Egypt."
+\v 27 They were the ones who spoke to the king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelite people out of Egypt.
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+\v 28 On the day that Yahweh spoke to Moses in Egypt,
+\v 29 he said, "I am Yahweh. You must tell the king everything that I say to you."
+\v 30 But Moses said to Yahweh, "Please listen to me. I am not a good speaker. So why should the king listen to what I tell him?"
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-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen to me. I will cause the king to see you as a god, and Aaron will be like a prophet because he will speak for you.
-\v 2 You must tell everything I command you to your older brother Aaron, and he will tell it all to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israelite people leave his land.
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-\v 3 But I will make the king stubborn. Because of this, even though I will do many kinds of miracles here in Egypt,
-\v 4 the king will not believe what you say. Then I will punish the people of Egypt very severely, and I will lead the tribes of my Israelite people out of Egypt.
-\v 5 Then, when I show my great power to the Egyptian people and bring the Israelite people out from among them, they will know that I am Yahweh, the all-powerful God."
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-\v 6 Aaron and Moses did everything that Yahweh told them to do.
-\v 7 At that time, Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83 years old.
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-\v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,
-\v 9 "If the king says to you, 'Show me that God sent you by performing a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Throw your staff down in front of the king in order that it may become a snake.'"
-\v 10 So Aaron and Moses went to the king and did what Yahweh told them to do. Aaron threw his staff down in front of the king and his officials, and it became a snake.
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-\v 11 Then the king called his sorcerers and men who did magic. They did the same thing, using their magic.
-\v 12 They all threw down their staffs, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff, which had become a snake, swallowed up all their snakes!
-\v 13 But the king continued to be stubborn, just as Yahweh had said he would, and he would not believe what Aaron and Moses said.
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-\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "The king is very stubborn. He refuses to allow my people to go.
-\v 15 So tomorrow morning, go to him as he is going down to the Nile River to bathe. Wait for him on the riverbank. When he comes out of the water, show him the staff, the one that had become a snake.
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-\v 16 Say to him, 'Yahweh God, the one we Hebrews worship, sent me to you to tell you to let my people go in order that they may worship him in the desert. We told you that, but you have not listened to us.
-\v 17 So now Yahweh says this: "This is the way you will know that I am Yahweh, the all-powerful God. I am going to strike the water that is in the Nile River with the staff that is in my hand. When I do that, the water will become blood.
-\v 18 Then the fish in the Nile River will die, and the water in the river will smell bad. The Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the river."'"
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-\v 19 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you are talking to the king, say to Aaron, 'Hold your staff out as though you were holding it over all the water in Egypt—over the rivers, the canals, the ponds, and over the pools of water, in order that all of it may become blood.' When Aaron does that, there will be blood throughout Egypt, even in wooden jars and in stone jars."
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-\v 20 So Aaron and Moses did what Yahweh told them to do. As the king and his officials were watching, Aaron lifted up his staff and then struck the water in the Nile River with it. All the water in the river turned to blood.
-\v 21 Then all the fish died. The water smelled bad, with the result that the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. Everywhere in Egypt the water became red like blood.
-\v 22 But the Egyptian men who did magic did the same thing using their magic. So the king remained stubborn, and he would not listen to what Aaron and Moses said, just as Yahweh said would happen.
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-\v 23 Then the king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it.
-\v 24 All the Egyptians dug into the ground near the Nile River to get water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.
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-\v 25 Then one week passed after Yahweh turned the water in the Nile River into blood.
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen to me. I will cause the king to see you as a god, and Aaron will be like a prophet because he will speak for you.
+\v 2 You must tell everything I command you to your older brother Aaron, and he will tell it all to the king. He must tell the king to let the Israelite people leave his land.
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+\v 3 But I will make the king stubborn. Because of this, even though I will do many kinds of miracles here in Egypt,
+\v 4 the king will not believe what you say. Then I will punish the people of Egypt very severely, and I will lead the tribes of my Israelite people out of Egypt.
+\v 5 Then, when I show my great power to the Egyptian people and bring the Israelite people out from among them, they will know that I am Yahweh, the all-powerful God."
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+\v 6 Aaron and Moses did everything that Yahweh told them to do.
+\v 7 At that time, Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83 years old.
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+\v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,
+\v 9 "If the king says to you, 'Show me that God sent you by performing a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Throw your staff down in front of the king in order that it may become a snake.'"
+\v 10 So Aaron and Moses went to the king and did what Yahweh told them to do. Aaron threw his staff down in front of the king and his officials, and it became a snake.
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+\v 11 Then the king called his sorcerers and men who did magic. They did the same thing, using their magic.
+\v 12 They all threw down their staffs, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff, which had become a snake, swallowed up all their snakes!
+\v 13 But the king continued to be stubborn, just as Yahweh had said he would, and he would not believe what Aaron and Moses said.
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+\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "The king is very stubborn. He refuses to allow my people to go.
+\v 15 So tomorrow morning, go to him as he is going down to the Nile River to bathe. Wait for him on the riverbank. When he comes out of the water, show him the staff, the one that had become a snake.
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+\v 16 Say to him, 'Yahweh God, the one we Hebrews worship, sent me to you to tell you to let my people go in order that they may worship him in the desert. We told you that, but you have not listened to us.
+\v 17 So now Yahweh says this: "This is the way you will know that I am Yahweh, the all-powerful God. I am going to strike the water that is in the Nile River with the staff that is in my hand. When I do that, the water will become blood.
+\v 18 Then the fish in the Nile River will die, and the water in the river will smell bad. The Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the river."'"
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+\v 19 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you are talking to the king, say to Aaron, 'Hold your staff out as though you were holding it over all the water in Egypt—over the rivers, the canals, the ponds, and over the pools of water, in order that all of it may become blood.' When Aaron does that, there will be blood throughout Egypt, even in wooden jars and in stone jars."
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+\v 20 So Aaron and Moses did what Yahweh told them to do. As the king and his officials were watching, Aaron lifted up his staff and then struck the water in the Nile River with it. All the water in the river turned to blood.
+\v 21 Then all the fish died. The water smelled bad, with the result that the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. Everywhere in Egypt the water became red like blood.
+\v 22 But the Egyptian men who did magic did the same thing using their magic. So the king remained stubborn, and he would not listen to what Aaron and Moses said, just as Yahweh said would happen.
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+\v 23 Then the king turned and went back to his palace, and he did not think any more about it.
+\v 24 All the Egyptians dug into the ground near the Nile River to get water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.
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+\v 25 Then one week passed after Yahweh turned the water in the Nile River into blood.
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-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go back to the king and tell him, 'Yahweh says that you must let my people go in order that they can worship me in the desert.
-\v 2 But if you do not let them go, I will punish you by sending frogs to cover your country.
-\v 3 Not only will the Nile River be full of frogs, but also the frogs will come up out of the river into your house. They will come into your bedroom and onto your bed. They will be in the houses of your leaders and all the rest of your people. They will even get into your ovens and your pans for mixing the materials for baking bread.
-\v 4 The frogs will jump up on you, your officials, and on all the rest of your people.'"
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-\v 5 Yahweh also said to Moses, "Say this to Aaron: 'Hold your staff in your hand and stretch it out as though you were stretching it over the river, the canals, and the pools, and cause frogs to come up from all this water and to cover the land of Egypt.'"
-\v 6 After Moses told that to him, Aaron stretched out his hand as though he were stretching it over all the water in Egypt. Then the frogs came up from the water and covered Egypt.
-\v 7 But the men who did magic did the same thing, and they caused more frogs to come up from the water onto the land.
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-\v 8 Then the king called Moses and said, "Ask Yahweh to take away these frogs from me and my people. After that happens, I will allow your people to go to worship Yahweh."
-\v 9 Moses said to the king, "I will be glad to pray for you, for your officials, and for the rest of your people. I will ask Yahweh to get rid of the frogs from all your houses. The only frogs left will be those in the Nile River. Just tell me when I should pray."
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-\v 10 The king replied, "Tomorrow." So Moses said, "I will do what you say, and then you will know that Yahweh God, the one we worship, is the only true god, and that there is no other god like him.
-\v 11 The frogs will leave you, your officials, and all the rest of your people. The only ones left will be in the Nile River."
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-\v 12 Then Moses and Aaron left the king. Moses prayed to Yahweh, asking him to take away all the frogs he had brought to the king's land.
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-\v 13 Yahweh did just what Moses asked him to do. As a result, all the frogs in the houses, in their courtyards, and in their fields died.
-\v 14 The people gathered together all the dead frogs into big piles, and the land smelled very bad.
-\v 15 But when the king saw that the problem was ended, he became stubborn again. Just as Yahweh had said would happen, the king did not do what Aaron and Moses told him.
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-\v 16 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to strike the ground with his staff. When he does that, all the fine particles of earth will become gnats all over the land of Egypt."
-\v 17 Moses and Aaron obeyed Yahweh. Aaron struck the ground with his staff, and all over Egypt the fine particles of earth became gnats. The gnats covered the people and all their animals.
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-\v 18 The men who worked magic tried to cause gnats to appear, but they could not do it. So the gnats stayed on the people and on their animals.
-\v 19 The men who worked magic said to the king, "It is God who has done this with his power!" But the king continued to be stubborn, and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses said, just as Yahweh had said.
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-\v 20 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go down to the river and wait for the king. When he comes to bathe, say to him, 'This is what Yahweh says to you: "Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert.
-\v 21 I warn you that if you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies to you. They will come on you, on your officials, and on the rest of your people. The houses of all you Egyptians will be full of flies. They will even cover the ground on which you will be standing.
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-\v 22 But when that happens, I will treat the region of Goshen differently, because my people live there. There will be no swarms of flies there. In that way, you will know that I, Yahweh, am doing these things here in this land.
-\v 23 I will show you how I act toward my people and how I act toward your people. This miracle is going to happen tomorrow!"'"
-\p
-\v 24 Early the next morning, Moses told that to the king, but the king would not listen. So Yahweh did what he said he would do. He sent great swarms of flies into the palace of the king and into the houses of his officials. The whole country of Egypt was ruined by the flies.
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-\v 25 Then the king called Aaron and Moses and said, "You Israelite people can go and worship your god, but you must do it here in this land."
-\v 26 But Moses replied, "It would not be right for us to do that because we will offer sacrifices that are very offensive to the Egyptian people. If we offer sacrifices that the Egyptian people do not like, they will kill us by throwing stones at us!
-\v 27 We need to travel for three days into the wilderness. There we will offer sacrifices to Yahweh, the God we worship, just as he commands us."
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-\v 28 So the king said, "I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, your god, in the desert. But you must not go very far. Now pray for me!"
-\v 29 Moses said, "Listen to me! After I leave you, I will pray to Yahweh, asking that tomorrow he will cause the swarms of flies to leave you, your officials, and the rest of your people. But do not lie to us again by refusing to let our people go to offer sacrifices to Yahweh!"
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-\v 30 Then Moses left the king and prayed to Yahweh.
-\v 31 Yahweh did what Moses asked. He got rid of the swarms of flies from around the king, his officials, and the rest of his people. No flies remained.
-\v 32 But the king was stubborn this time also, and he did not allow the Israelite people to go.
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go back to the king and tell him, 'Yahweh says that you must let my people go in order that they can worship me in the desert.
+\v 2 But if you do not let them go, I will punish you by sending frogs to cover your country.
+\v 3 Not only will the Nile River be full of frogs, but also the frogs will come up out of the river into your house. They will come into your bedroom and onto your bed. They will be in the houses of your leaders and all the rest of your people. They will even get into your ovens and your pans for mixing the materials for baking bread.
+\v 4 The frogs will jump up on you, your officials, and on all the rest of your people.'"
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+\p
+\v 5 Yahweh also said to Moses, "Say this to Aaron: 'Hold your staff in your hand and stretch it out as though you were stretching it over the river, the canals, and the pools, and cause frogs to come up from all this water and to cover the land of Egypt.'"
+\v 6 After Moses told that to him, Aaron stretched out his hand as though he were stretching it over all the water in Egypt. Then the frogs came up from the water and covered Egypt.
+\v 7 But the men who did magic did the same thing, and they caused more frogs to come up from the water onto the land.
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+\v 8 Then the king called Moses and said, "Ask Yahweh to take away these frogs from me and my people. After that happens, I will allow your people to go to worship Yahweh."
+\v 9 Moses said to the king, "I will be glad to pray for you, for your officials, and for the rest of your people. I will ask Yahweh to get rid of the frogs from all your houses. The only frogs left will be those in the Nile River. Just tell me when I should pray."
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+\v 10 The king replied, "Tomorrow." So Moses said, "I will do what you say, and then you will know that Yahweh God, the one we worship, is the only true god, and that there is no other god like him.
+\v 11 The frogs will leave you, your officials, and all the rest of your people. The only ones left will be in the Nile River."
+\p
+\v 12 Then Moses and Aaron left the king. Moses prayed to Yahweh, asking him to take away all the frogs he had brought to the king's land.
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+\v 13 Yahweh did just what Moses asked him to do. As a result, all the frogs in the houses, in their courtyards, and in their fields died.
+\v 14 The people gathered together all the dead frogs into big piles, and the land smelled very bad.
+\v 15 But when the king saw that the problem was ended, he became stubborn again. Just as Yahweh had said would happen, the king did not do what Aaron and Moses told him.
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+\v 16 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to strike the ground with his staff. When he does that, all the fine particles of earth will become gnats all over the land of Egypt."
+\v 17 Moses and Aaron obeyed Yahweh. Aaron struck the ground with his staff, and all over Egypt the fine particles of earth became gnats. The gnats covered the people and all their animals.
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+\v 18 The men who worked magic tried to cause gnats to appear, but they could not do it. So the gnats stayed on the people and on their animals.
+\v 19 The men who worked magic said to the king, "It is God who has done this with his power!" But the king continued to be stubborn, and he would not pay attention to what Aaron and Moses said, just as Yahweh had said.
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+\v 20 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go down to the river and wait for the king. When he comes to bathe, say to him, 'This is what Yahweh says to you: "Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert.
+\v 21 I warn you that if you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies to you. They will come on you, on your officials, and on the rest of your people. The houses of all you Egyptians will be full of flies. They will even cover the ground on which you will be standing.
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+\v 22 But when that happens, I will treat the region of Goshen differently, because my people live there. There will be no swarms of flies there. In that way, you will know that I, Yahweh, am doing these things here in this land.
+\v 23 I will show you how I act toward my people and how I act toward your people. This miracle is going to happen tomorrow!"'"
+\p
+\v 24 Early the next morning, Moses told that to the king, but the king would not listen. So Yahweh did what he said he would do. He sent great swarms of flies into the palace of the king and into the houses of his officials. The whole country of Egypt was ruined by the flies.
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+\s5
+\v 25 Then the king called Aaron and Moses and said, "You Israelite people can go and worship your god, but you must do it here in this land."
+\v 26 But Moses replied, "It would not be right for us to do that because we will offer sacrifices that are very offensive to the Egyptian people. If we offer sacrifices that the Egyptian people do not like, they will kill us by throwing stones at us!
+\v 27 We need to travel for three days into the wilderness. There we will offer sacrifices to Yahweh, the God we worship, just as he commands us."
+
+\s5
+\v 28 So the king said, "I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, your god, in the desert. But you must not go very far. Now pray for me!"
+\v 29 Moses said, "Listen to me! After I leave you, I will pray to Yahweh, asking that tomorrow he will cause the swarms of flies to leave you, your officials, and the rest of your people. But do not lie to us again by refusing to let our people go to offer sacrifices to Yahweh!"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30 Then Moses left the king and prayed to Yahweh.
+\v 31 Yahweh did what Moses asked. He got rid of the swarms of flies from around the king, his officials, and the rest of his people. No flies remained.
+\v 32 But the king was stubborn this time also, and he did not allow the Israelite people to go.
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-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the king and say to him, 'This is what Yahweh, the one we Hebrews worship, says: "Allow my people to go, in order that they may worship me.
-\v 2 If you still refuse to let them go,
-\v 3 I warn you that I will punish you with my power by sending a terrible disease on all your livestock to make them sick and die—on your horses, on your donkeys, on your camels, on your cattle, and on your flocks of sheep and goats.
-\v 4 But I, Yahweh, will not treat the livestock that belongs to the Israelite people the same as yours. You will see that none of the livestock that belongs to the Israelite people will die."
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-\v 5 Tell Pharaoh that I will do this thing in the land tomorrow."'"
-\p
-\v 6 The next day Yahweh did what he said that he would do. A terrible disease came upon all of the Egyptians' livestock, and all of the livestock died. But none of the Israelite livestock died.
-\v 7 The king sent men to look at what happened, and they were surprised to see that none of the Israelite animals had died. But after they told that to the king, he continued to be stubborn, and he did not let the Israelite people go.
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-\p
-\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses, "Take a few handfuls of ashes from a furnace. Moses will throw them up into the air in front of the king.
-\v 9 The ashes will spread all over the country of Egypt like fine dust. Everywhere in the land, the ashes will cause boils to be upon both the Egyptian people and their animals."
-\v 10 So they got some ashes and went and stood in front of the king. Moses threw the ashes up into the air. The ashes spread all over, causing boils to be upon both the Egyptian people and their animals. All the boils became open sores.
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-\s5
-\v 11 Even the men who worked magic had boils. Because of this, they were not able to face Moses because the men who worked magic had boils just like all the rest of the Egyptian people.
-\v 12 But Yahweh caused the king to continue to be stubborn. He did not pay any attention to what Moses and Aaron said, just as Yahweh had told Moses would happen.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 13 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go and stand in front of the king and tell him that Yahweh God, the one whom the Hebrew people worship, says this: 'Let my people go in order that they may worship me in the wilderness.
-\v 14 If you do not let them go, this time I will punish with disasters, not only your officials and the rest of your people, but also you yourself in order that you might know there is no god like me anywhere in the world.
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-\s5
-\v 15 By this time I could have used my power to strike you and your people with terrible diseases that would have killed you all.
-\v 16 But I have let you live. The reason I have let you live is to show you my power so that people all over the earth will know how great I am.
-\v 17 You are still acting proudly and refusing to let my people go.
-
-\s5
-\v 18 So listen to this: about this time tomorrow I will cause large balls of ice to fall in Egypt. From the time Egypt first became a nation, there has never been an ice storm as bad as this one will be.
-\v 19 So you should send a message to all people to put under shelter their cattle and everything else that they own that is out in the fields. The ice will fall on every person and every animal that is out in the fields and that is not brought under a shelter, and they will all die.'" So Moses did what Yahweh said.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 20 Some of the king's officials who heard what Yahweh had said became very afraid. So they brought all their animals and their slaves under shelters.
-\v 21 But those who did not listen to what Yahweh had said left their slaves and their animals in the fields.
-
-\s5
-\v 22 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Raise your hand up toward the sky, in order that balls of ice may fall all over the land of Egypt—on the people, on their animals, and on all the plants in the fields."
-\v 23 So Moses lifted his staff up toward the sky. And Yahweh sent down balls of ice all over the land of Egypt. There was also thunder and lightning.
-\v 24 While large balls of ice were falling, there was thunder, and lightning struck the ground. There had never been an ice storm like that since Egypt first became a country.
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-\s5
-\v 25 The ice struck everything that was in the fields all over Egypt—every person and every animal. The ice destroyed the plants in the fields and stripped the leaves off the trees.
-\v 26 Only in the region of Goshen, where the Israelite people were living, was there no ice.
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-\p
-\v 27 Then the king sent someone to summon Aaron and Moses. He said to them, "This time I admit that I have sinned. What Yahweh has done is right, and what I and my people have done is wrong.
-\v 28 Pray to Yahweh! We cannot take any more of this thunder and ice! I will let your people go; they do not have to stay in Egypt any longer."
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-\p
-\v 29 Moses replied, "As soon as I go out of this city, I will lift up my hands and pray to Yahweh. Then the thunder will cease, and no more ice will fall. This will happen in order that you will know that Yahweh, not your gods, controls everything that happens on the earth.
-\v 30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 31 When the ice fell, the flax was ruined because the blossoms were forming, and the barley was ruined because its grain was ripe.
-\v 32 But none of the wheat was ruined, because its shoots were still very small.
-\p
-\v 33 So Moses left the king and went outside the city. He lifted up his hands toward Yahweh and prayed. Then the thunder and the ice storm stopped, and the rain also stopped falling on the land of Egypt.
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-\s5
-\v 34 But when the king saw that the rain, the ice storm, and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again. He and his officials continued to be stubborn.
-\v 35 So, just as Yahweh had predicted by what he told Moses, the king did not allow the Israelite people to leave.
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+\s5
+\c 9
+
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the king and say to him, 'This is what Yahweh, the one we Hebrews worship, says: "Allow my people to go, in order that they may worship me.
+\v 2 If you still refuse to let them go,
+\v 3 I warn you that I will punish you with my power by sending a terrible disease on all your livestock to make them sick and die—on your horses, on your donkeys, on your camels, on your cattle, and on your flocks of sheep and goats.
+\v 4 But I, Yahweh, will not treat the livestock that belongs to the Israelite people the same as yours. You will see that none of the livestock that belongs to the Israelite people will die."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Tell Pharaoh that I will do this thing in the land tomorrow."'"
+\p
+\v 6 The next day Yahweh did what he said that he would do. A terrible disease came upon all of the Egyptians' livestock, and all of the livestock died. But none of the Israelite livestock died.
+\v 7 The king sent men to look at what happened, and they were surprised to see that none of the Israelite animals had died. But after they told that to the king, he continued to be stubborn, and he did not let the Israelite people go.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses, "Take a few handfuls of ashes from a furnace. Moses will throw them up into the air in front of the king.
+\v 9 The ashes will spread all over the country of Egypt like fine dust. Everywhere in the land, the ashes will cause boils to be upon both the Egyptian people and their animals."
+\v 10 So they got some ashes and went and stood in front of the king. Moses threw the ashes up into the air. The ashes spread all over, causing boils to be upon both the Egyptian people and their animals. All the boils became open sores.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Even the men who worked magic had boils. Because of this, they were not able to face Moses because the men who worked magic had boils just like all the rest of the Egyptian people.
+\v 12 But Yahweh caused the king to continue to be stubborn. He did not pay any attention to what Moses and Aaron said, just as Yahweh had told Moses would happen.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early tomorrow morning. Go and stand in front of the king and tell him that Yahweh God, the one whom the Hebrew people worship, says this: 'Let my people go in order that they may worship me in the wilderness.
+\v 14 If you do not let them go, this time I will punish with disasters, not only your officials and the rest of your people, but also you yourself in order that you might know there is no god like me anywhere in the world.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 By this time I could have used my power to strike you and your people with terrible diseases that would have killed you all.
+\v 16 But I have let you live. The reason I have let you live is to show you my power so that people all over the earth will know how great I am.
+\v 17 You are still acting proudly and refusing to let my people go.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 So listen to this: about this time tomorrow I will cause large balls of ice to fall in Egypt. From the time Egypt first became a nation, there has never been an ice storm as bad as this one will be.
+\v 19 So you should send a message to all people to put under shelter their cattle and everything else that they own that is out in the fields. The ice will fall on every person and every animal that is out in the fields and that is not brought under a shelter, and they will all die.'" So Moses did what Yahweh said.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Some of the king's officials who heard what Yahweh had said became very afraid. So they brought all their animals and their slaves under shelters.
+\v 21 But those who did not listen to what Yahweh had said left their slaves and their animals in the fields.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Raise your hand up toward the sky, in order that balls of ice may fall all over the land of Egypt—on the people, on their animals, and on all the plants in the fields."
+\v 23 So Moses lifted his staff up toward the sky. And Yahweh sent down balls of ice all over the land of Egypt. There was also thunder and lightning.
+\v 24 While large balls of ice were falling, there was thunder, and lightning struck the ground. There had never been an ice storm like that since Egypt first became a country.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 The ice struck everything that was in the fields all over Egypt—every person and every animal. The ice destroyed the plants in the fields and stripped the leaves off the trees.
+\v 26 Only in the region of Goshen, where the Israelite people were living, was there no ice.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 Then the king sent someone to summon Aaron and Moses. He said to them, "This time I admit that I have sinned. What Yahweh has done is right, and what I and my people have done is wrong.
+\v 28 Pray to Yahweh! We cannot take any more of this thunder and ice! I will let your people go; they do not have to stay in Egypt any longer."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 29 Moses replied, "As soon as I go out of this city, I will lift up my hands and pray to Yahweh. Then the thunder will cease, and no more ice will fall. This will happen in order that you will know that Yahweh, not your gods, controls everything that happens on the earth.
+\v 30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 When the ice fell, the flax was ruined because the blossoms were forming, and the barley was ruined because its grain was ripe.
+\v 32 But none of the wheat was ruined, because its shoots were still very small.
+\p
+\v 33 So Moses left the king and went outside the city. He lifted up his hands toward Yahweh and prayed. Then the thunder and the ice storm stopped, and the rain also stopped falling on the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 But when the king saw that the rain, the ice storm, and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again. He and his officials continued to be stubborn.
+\v 35 So, just as Yahweh had predicted by what he told Moses, the king did not allow the Israelite people to leave.
+
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-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the king again. I have made him and his officials stubborn. I have done so in order that I may have a good reason to do all these miracles among them.
-\v 2 I have also done so in order that you would be able to tell your children and your grandchildren how I caused the Egyptians to act very foolishly when I performed all these miracles. Then all of you will know that I am Yahweh God."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 3 So Aaron and Moses went to the king and said to him, "Yahweh God, the one whom we Hebrews worship, says this, 'How long will you stubbornly refuse to do what I tell you? Let my people go in order that they may worship me in the wilderness!
-\v 4 If you do not let them go, I warn you that tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
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-\v 5 They will cover the ground so that you will not even be able to see it. They will eat everything that the ice storm did not destroy. They will eat everything that is left on the trees that is still growing.
-\v 6 They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and of all the rest of the Egyptians. There will be more locusts than you or your parents or your grandparents have ever seen from the time your ancestors first came to this land until now!'" Then Moses, along with Aaron, turned and left the king.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 7 The king's officials said to him, "How long is this man going to bring bad things upon us? Let the Israelites go in order that they may worship Yahweh, their god. Do you not yet understand that this man has ruined Egypt?"
-\v 8 So they brought Aaron and Moses back to the king. He said to them, "All right, you can go and worship Yahweh, your god. But who are the ones who will go?"
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-\s5
-\v 9 Moses replied, "We all need to go, everyone, including those who are young and those who are old. We need to take our sons, our daughters, and our flocks of sheep, goats, and herds of livestock because we must have a festival to honor Yahweh."
-\p
-\v 10 So the king replied, "I never want Yahweh to help you, and I myself will never let you take your children and your wives with you! It is clear that you are planning not to return.
-\v 11 So, no, I will not let you all go. The Israelite men may go and worship Yahweh if that is what you want." Then the king drove Moses and Aaron from his palace.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand as though you were stretching it over the land to welcome the locusts. They will come to the country of Egypt and eat every plant that is left in the land, every plant that the ice storm did not destroy."
-\p
-\v 13 So Moses held out his staff as though he were stretching it over the whole land of Egypt. Then Yahweh caused a strong wind to blow from the east, and it blew over the land all that day and all that night. By the next morning, it had brought the locusts.
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-\v 14 The locusts swarmed all over Egypt. The swarm of locusts was larger than any that had ever been seen in Egypt, and there will never be a swarm of locusts like that again in the land.
-\v 15 They covered the surface of the ground and made it appear black. They ate all the plants in the land and everything on the trees that had not been destroyed by the ice storm. Nothing that was green was left on any plant or on any tree anywhere in Egypt.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 16 The king quickly called Aaron and Moses and said, "I have sinned against Yahweh, your god, and against you two.
-\v 17 So now I ask you to forgive me this one time for having sinned. Please pray to Yahweh, your god, to take away this terrible disaster that will cause us all to die."
-\p
-\v 18 So Moses and Aaron left the king, and Moses prayed to Yahweh.
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-\s5
-\v 19 Then Yahweh changed the wind so that it blew strongly from the west, and it blew all the locusts into the Sea of Reeds. There was not one locust left anywhere in the country of Egypt.
-\p
-\v 20 But Yahweh made the king stubborn again, and the king did not let the Israelite people go.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach your hand up toward the sky in order that there may be darkness over all the land of Egypt, a darkness so complete that people will have to feel around to know where to walk."
-\v 22 So Moses reached his hand toward the sky, and it became very dark all over Egypt for three days and nights.
-\v 23 People could not see each other. No one left his house during that whole time. But there was light in the area where the Israelite people lived.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 24 The king called Moses and said, "All right, you may go and worship Yahweh. Your wives and your children may go with you. But your flocks of sheep and goats and your herds of cattle must remain here."
-\v 25 But Moses replied, "No, you must let us take along the sheep and goats in order that we may have some of them to sacrifice and give as burnt offerings to Yahweh, our God.
-\v 26 Our livestock must also go with us; we are not going to leave one animal behind. We must take them to worship Yahweh. We will not know which animals to sacrifice until we get to where we are going."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 27 But Yahweh made the king continue to be stubborn. The king would not let the Israelite people go.
-\v 28 The king said to Moses and Aaron, "Get out of here! Make sure that you never come to see me again! The day you see me again, I will have you killed!"
-\v 29 Moses replied, "You are correct! You will never see me again!"
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+\s5
+\c 10
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the king again. I have made him and his officials stubborn. I have done so in order that I may have a good reason to do all these miracles among them.
+\v 2 I have also done so in order that you would be able to tell your children and your grandchildren how I caused the Egyptians to act very foolishly when I performed all these miracles. Then all of you will know that I am Yahweh God."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 3 So Aaron and Moses went to the king and said to him, "Yahweh God, the one whom we Hebrews worship, says this, 'How long will you stubbornly refuse to do what I tell you? Let my people go in order that they may worship me in the wilderness!
+\v 4 If you do not let them go, I warn you that tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 They will cover the ground so that you will not even be able to see it. They will eat everything that the ice storm did not destroy. They will eat everything that is left on the trees that is still growing.
+\v 6 They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and of all the rest of the Egyptians. There will be more locusts than you or your parents or your grandparents have ever seen from the time your ancestors first came to this land until now!'" Then Moses, along with Aaron, turned and left the king.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 The king's officials said to him, "How long is this man going to bring bad things upon us? Let the Israelites go in order that they may worship Yahweh, their god. Do you not yet understand that this man has ruined Egypt?"
+\v 8 So they brought Aaron and Moses back to the king. He said to them, "All right, you can go and worship Yahweh, your god. But who are the ones who will go?"
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Moses replied, "We all need to go, everyone, including those who are young and those who are old. We need to take our sons, our daughters, and our flocks of sheep, goats, and herds of livestock because we must have a festival to honor Yahweh."
+\p
+\v 10 So the king replied, "I never want Yahweh to help you, and I myself will never let you take your children and your wives with you! It is clear that you are planning not to return.
+\v 11 So, no, I will not let you all go. The Israelite men may go and worship Yahweh if that is what you want." Then the king drove Moses and Aaron from his palace.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand as though you were stretching it over the land to welcome the locusts. They will come to the country of Egypt and eat every plant that is left in the land, every plant that the ice storm did not destroy."
+\p
+\v 13 So Moses held out his staff as though he were stretching it over the whole land of Egypt. Then Yahweh caused a strong wind to blow from the east, and it blew over the land all that day and all that night. By the next morning, it had brought the locusts.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 The locusts swarmed all over Egypt. The swarm of locusts was larger than any that had ever been seen in Egypt, and there will never be a swarm of locusts like that again in the land.
+\v 15 They covered the surface of the ground and made it appear black. They ate all the plants in the land and everything on the trees that had not been destroyed by the ice storm. Nothing that was green was left on any plant or on any tree anywhere in Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 The king quickly called Aaron and Moses and said, "I have sinned against Yahweh, your god, and against you two.
+\v 17 So now I ask you to forgive me this one time for having sinned. Please pray to Yahweh, your god, to take away this terrible disaster that will cause us all to die."
+\p
+\v 18 So Moses and Aaron left the king, and Moses prayed to Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Then Yahweh changed the wind so that it blew strongly from the west, and it blew all the locusts into the Sea of Reeds. There was not one locust left anywhere in the country of Egypt.
+\p
+\v 20 But Yahweh made the king stubborn again, and the king did not let the Israelite people go.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach your hand up toward the sky in order that there may be darkness over all the land of Egypt, a darkness so complete that people will have to feel around to know where to walk."
+\v 22 So Moses reached his hand toward the sky, and it became very dark all over Egypt for three days and nights.
+\v 23 People could not see each other. No one left his house during that whole time. But there was light in the area where the Israelite people lived.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 The king called Moses and said, "All right, you may go and worship Yahweh. Your wives and your children may go with you. But your flocks of sheep and goats and your herds of cattle must remain here."
+\v 25 But Moses replied, "No, you must let us take along the sheep and goats in order that we may have some of them to sacrifice and give as burnt offerings to Yahweh, our God.
+\v 26 Our livestock must also go with us; we are not going to leave one animal behind. We must take them to worship Yahweh. We will not know which animals to sacrifice until we get to where we are going."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 But Yahweh made the king continue to be stubborn. The king would not let the Israelite people go.
+\v 28 The king said to Moses and Aaron, "Get out of here! Make sure that you never come to see me again! The day you see me again, I will have you killed!"
+\v 29 Moses replied, "You are correct! You will never see me again!"
+
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 \v 5 The lambs or goats that you choose must be males, one year olds, and they must not have any defects.
 \v 6 You must take special care of these animals until the fourteenth day of the month. On that day, all the Israelite people must kill the lambs or goats in the evening.
-\v 7 Then they must take some of the blood from the lambs or goats, and they must smear it on the doorposts and the lintels of the houses in which they will eat the meat.
+\v 7 Then they must take some of the blood from the lambs or goats, and they must smear it on the two doorposts and on the tops of the doorframes of the houses in which they will eat the meat.
 \v 8 They must roast the animals immediately and eat the meat that night. They must eat it with bitter herbs and with bread that is baked without yeast.
 
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-\v 1 They left Elim, and all the Israelite people came to the wilderness named Sin between Elim and Sinai Mountain. That was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.
-\v 2 There in the wilderness, the Israelite people complained against Aaron and Moses.
-\v 3 They said to them, "We wish that Yahweh had killed us in Egypt! There we had meat to eat and all the bread that we wanted. But you have brought us into this desert in order that we will all starve to death!"
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-\p
-\v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen to what I am going to do. I am going to send something from the sky that will take the place of bread for you. When I do that, the people must go out of their tents every day and gather enough to eat on that day. When I do that, I will find out whether they will obey me or not.
-\v 5 On the sixth day after I start doing that, they will be able to gather twice as much as on the other days and not have to gather any on the seventh day. Then they can prepare it to eat it."
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-\p
-\v 6 So Aaron and Moses said to all the Israelite people, "This evening you will know that it was Yahweh, not us, who brought you out of Egypt.
-\v 7 Tomorrow morning you will see how great Yahweh is because he has heard how you have complained against him. He is the one to whom you have really complained because we are just his servants." 
-\v 8 Then Moses also said, "Each evening Yahweh will give you meat to eat, and each morning he will give you something that will take the place of bread because he has heard what you have complained about. Yahweh is the one to whom you have really complained, not us. We are just his servants."
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-\p
-\v 9 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the Israelite people, 'Come and stand here in the presence of Yahweh because he has heard what you have been complaining about.'"
-\p
-\v 10 So Aaron told them that. As Aaron was talking to all the Israelite people, they looked toward the desert and were surprised to see the dazzling light of Yahweh in the cloud that had been leading them.
-\v 11 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
-\v 12 "I have heard what the Israelite people have been complaining about. So say to them, 'At twilight, you will have meat to eat, and tomorrow morning you will have something that will take the place of bread. You will have all you want of it to eat. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, your God.'"
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-\p
-\v 13 That evening quails appeared, and there were so many that they covered the campsite. The next morning there was something like small drops of water all around the campsite.
-\v 14 When the water dried up, on the ground there was a thin layer of something that looked like small white flakes. It looked like ice laying on the ground.
-\v 15 When the Israelite people saw it, since they had never seen it before and did not know what it was, they said to each other, "What is it?" Moses replied to them, "It is something Yahweh has given you to eat, to take the place of bread.
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-\s5
-\v 16 This is what Yahweh has commanded: Each of you should gather as much as you need to eat. Gather two liters for each person who lives in your tents."
-\p
-\v 17 So that is what the Israelite people did. Some gathered more and some gathered less.
-\v 18 But when they measured what they had gathered, those who had gathered a lot did not have anything left over. Those who had gathered less still had enough to eat. Each person gathered just enough.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 19 Moses said to them, "Do not leave any of it to eat tomorrow morning!"
-\v 20 Some of them did not pay any attention to what Moses said. They kept some of it until the next morning. However, it was full of maggots and smelled rotten. That made Moses angry.
-\p
-\v 21 Each morning they gathered as much as they needed. Later, when the sun got hot, what was left on the ground melted.
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 22 On the sixth day after they started gathering it, each person was able to gather four liters, which was twice as much as they gathered on the other days. When the leaders of the people came to Moses and told him about that,
-\v 23 Moses said to them, "This is what Yahweh has told you: Tomorrow will be a day for you to rest. It will be a day for Yahweh. So today, bake or boil what you will need for today and for tomorrow. Whatever is left this evening, you should put aside and keep it to eat tomorrow."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 24 So they did what Moses told them. What was left over, they kept until the next day. It did not spoil and did not get maggots in it!
-\v 25 On that day, Moses said, "Eat today what you have saved from yesterday because today is a day of rest to Yahweh. Today you will not find any of that food outside.
-
-\s5
-\v 26 Every week, you must gather it for six days; but on the seventh day, which will be a day of rest for you, you will not find any."
-\v 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went outside their tents to gather some of that food, but there was none.
-
-\s5
-\v 28 Then Yahweh told Moses to say this to the people: "Yahweh is angry because for a long time you people have refused to do all the things that he has told you to do!
-\v 29 Listen! Yahweh has given you a day of rest. So on the sixth day of each week, he will be giving you enough of this food for two days. Each of you should stay in his tent and do no work on the seventh day!"
-\v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 31 The Israelite people called this food 'manna,' which sounds like the Hebrew word that means 'what is it?' It looked white, like the color of coriander seeds, and it tasted like thin wafers made with honey.
-\v 32 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh has told you: 'You must keep two liters of it for all future generations so that they can see the food that took the place of bread that I gave to your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt.'"
-
-\s5
-\v 33 And he said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put two liters of manna in it. Then put it in a place where Yahweh can see it. It is to be kept like that for all future generations."
-\v 34 As Yahweh had commanded Moses, Aaron put the jar in front of the box that contained the stone slabs on which the Ten Commandments were written.
-\v 35 The Israelite people ate manna every day for forty years until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
-\v 36 Now two liters is a tenth of an ephah.
-
-
+
+
+\s5
+\c 16
+
+\p
+\v 1 They left Elim, and all the Israelite people came to the wilderness named Sin between Elim and Sinai Mountain. That was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.
+\v 2 There in the wilderness, the Israelite people complained against Aaron and Moses.
+\v 3 They said to them, "We wish that Yahweh had killed us in Egypt! There we had meat to eat and all the bread that we wanted. But you have brought us into this desert in order that we will all starve to death!"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Listen to what I am going to do. I am going to send something from the sky that will take the place of bread for you. When I do that, the people must go out of their tents every day and gather enough to eat on that day. When I do that, I will find out whether they will obey me or not.
+\v 5 On the sixth day after I start doing that, they will be able to gather twice as much as on the other days and not have to gather any on the seventh day. Then they can prepare it to eat it."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 So Aaron and Moses said to all the Israelite people, "This evening you will know that it was Yahweh, not us, who brought you out of Egypt.
+\v 7 Tomorrow morning you will see how great Yahweh is because he has heard how you have complained against him. He is the one to whom you have really complained because we are just his servants." 
+\v 8 Then Moses also said, "Each evening Yahweh will give you meat to eat, and each morning he will give you something that will take the place of bread because he has heard what you have complained about. Yahweh is the one to whom you have really complained, not us. We are just his servants."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the Israelite people, 'Come and stand here in the presence of Yahweh because he has heard what you have been complaining about.'"
+\p
+\v 10 So Aaron told them that. As Aaron was talking to all the Israelite people, they looked toward the desert and were surprised to see the dazzling light of Yahweh in the cloud that had been leading them.
+\v 11 Then Yahweh said to Moses,
+\v 12 "I have heard what the Israelite people have been complaining about. So say to them, 'At twilight, you will have meat to eat, and tomorrow morning you will have something that will take the place of bread. You will have all you want of it to eat. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, your God.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 That evening quails appeared, and there were so many that they covered the campsite. The next morning there was something like small drops of water all around the campsite.
+\v 14 When the water dried up, on the ground there was a thin layer of something that looked like small white flakes. It looked like ice laying on the ground.
+\v 15 When the Israelite people saw it, since they had never seen it before and did not know what it was, they said to each other, "What is it?" Moses replied to them, "It is something Yahweh has given you to eat, to take the place of bread.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 This is what Yahweh has commanded: Each of you should gather as much as you need to eat. Gather two liters for each person who lives in your tents."
+\p
+\v 17 So that is what the Israelite people did. Some gathered more and some gathered less.
+\v 18 But when they measured what they had gathered, those who had gathered a lot did not have anything left over. Those who had gathered less still had enough to eat. Each person gathered just enough.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 Moses said to them, "Do not leave any of it to eat tomorrow morning!"
+\v 20 Some of them did not pay any attention to what Moses said. They kept some of it until the next morning. However, it was full of maggots and smelled rotten. That made Moses angry.
+\p
+\v 21 Each morning they gathered as much as they needed. Later, when the sun got hot, what was left on the ground melted.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 On the sixth day after they started gathering it, each person was able to gather four liters, which was twice as much as they gathered on the other days. When the leaders of the people came to Moses and told him about that,
+\v 23 Moses said to them, "This is what Yahweh has told you: Tomorrow will be a day for you to rest. It will be a day for Yahweh. So today, bake or boil what you will need for today and for tomorrow. Whatever is left this evening, you should put aside and keep it to eat tomorrow."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 So they did what Moses told them. What was left over, they kept until the next day. It did not spoil and did not get maggots in it!
+\v 25 On that day, Moses said, "Eat today what you have saved from yesterday because today is a day of rest to Yahweh. Today you will not find any of that food outside.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 Every week, you must gather it for six days; but on the seventh day, which will be a day of rest for you, you will not find any."
+\v 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went outside their tents to gather some of that food, but there was none.
+
+\s5
+\v 28 Then Yahweh told Moses to say this to the people: "Yahweh is angry because for a long time you people have refused to do all the things that he has told you to do!
+\v 29 Listen! Yahweh has given you a day of rest. So on the sixth day of each week, he will be giving you enough of this food for two days. Each of you should stay in his tent and do no work on the seventh day!"
+\v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 The Israelite people called this food 'manna,' which sounds like the Hebrew word that means 'what is it?' It looked white, like the color of coriander seeds, and it tasted like thin wafers made with honey.
+\v 32 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh has told you: 'You must keep two liters of it for all future generations so that they can see the food that took the place of bread that I gave to your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 33 And he said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put two liters of manna in it. Then put it in a place where Yahweh can see it. It is to be kept like that for all future generations."
+\v 34 As Yahweh had commanded Moses, Aaron put the jar in front of the box that contained the stone slabs on which the Ten Commandments were written.
+\v 35 The Israelite people ate manna every day for forty years until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
+\v 36 Now two liters is a tenth of an ephah.
+
+

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-\s5
-\c 17
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-\p
-\v 1 Obeying what Yahweh commanded, all the Israelite people moved from the wilderness of Sin. They traveled from one place to another. They camped at a place called Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
-\v 2 So the people complained to Moses again, saying, "Give us water to drink!" Moses replied to them, "Why are you speaking against me? And why are you trying to test whether Yahweh has the power to give you what you need?"
-\v 3 But the people were very thirsty, and they continued to complain to Moses. They were saying, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt? Did you bring us here to cause us and our children and animals to die from thirst?"
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 4 So Moses prayed to Yahweh. He said, "How shall I deal with these people? They are almost ready to kill me by throwing stones at me!"
-\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take some of the elders of the Israelite people with you and tell the rest of the people to follow you to Mount Sinai. Take along the staff with which you struck the Nile River.
-\v 6 Listen to me! I will stand in front of you on top of a large rock at the foot of Mount Horeb. Strike the rock with your stick. When you do that, water for the people to drink will flow out of the rock." When the people arrived at the mountain, Moses did what God had said, while the Israelite elders were watching, and water flowed from the rock.
-\v 7 Moses gave that place two names in the Hebrew language--Masseh, which means 'testing,' and Meribah, which means 'complaining.' He gave it the name Massah because the Israelite people were testing Yahweh, saying "Is Yahweh really among us and able to help us, or not?" and Moses gave it the name Meribah because they were complaining all the time to him.
-
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 8 Then the people of Amalek came and fought against the Israelite people at Rephidim.
-\v 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men to go out and fight against the people of Amalek tomorrow. I will stand on the top of the hill, holding the staff that God told me to carry."
-\v 10 So Joshua obeyed Moses. He took some men to fight against the people of Amalek. While they were fighting, Aaron, Hur, and Moses went up to the top of the hill so that they could see the whole battle area.
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-\s5
-\v 11 Whenever Moses lifted up his arms, the Israelite men started to win the battle; whenever he lowered his arms, the people of Amalek started to win.
-\v 12 But Moses' arms became tired. So Aaron and Hur rolled a large stone for him to sit on. While he was sitting on it, those two held up his arms, one man on either side of him. In that way, they kept his arms lifted up until the sun went down.
-\v 13 In this way Joshua and the men with him defeated the people of Amalek in battle.
-
-\s5
-\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Write an account of this battle and then read it to Joshua. Also write that I will completely destroy the people of Amalek."
-\v 15 Then Moses built a stone altar there and named it "Yahweh is my flag."
-\v 16 He said, "A promise was made in front of the throne of Yahweh: Yahweh will fight against the people of Amalek forever!"
-
-
-
+
+
+\s5
+\c 17
+
+\p
+\v 1 Obeying what Yahweh commanded, all the Israelite people moved from the wilderness of Sin. They traveled from one place to another. They camped at a place called Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
+\v 2 So the people complained to Moses again, saying, "Give us water to drink!" Moses replied to them, "Why are you speaking against me? And why are you trying to test whether Yahweh has the power to give you what you need?"
+\v 3 But the people were very thirsty, and they continued to complain to Moses. They were saying, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt? Did you bring us here to cause us and our children and animals to die from thirst?"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 So Moses prayed to Yahweh. He said, "How shall I deal with these people? They are almost ready to kill me by throwing stones at me!"
+\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take some of the elders of the Israelite people with you and tell the rest of the people to follow you to Mount Sinai. Take along the staff with which you struck the Nile River.
+\v 6 Listen to me! I will stand in front of you on top of a large rock at the foot of Mount Horeb. Strike the rock with your stick. When you do that, water for the people to drink will flow out of the rock." When the people arrived at the mountain, Moses did what God had said, while the Israelite elders were watching, and water flowed from the rock.
+\v 7 Moses gave that place two names in the Hebrew language--Masseh, which means 'testing,' and Meribah, which means 'complaining.' He gave it the name Massah because the Israelite people were testing Yahweh, saying "Is Yahweh really among us and able to help us, or not?" and Moses gave it the name Meribah because they were complaining all the time to him.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then the people of Amalek came and fought against the Israelite people at Rephidim.
+\v 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men to go out and fight against the people of Amalek tomorrow. I will stand on the top of the hill, holding the staff that God told me to carry."
+\v 10 So Joshua obeyed Moses. He took some men to fight against the people of Amalek. While they were fighting, Aaron, Hur, and Moses went up to the top of the hill so that they could see the whole battle area.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Whenever Moses lifted up his arms, the Israelite men started to win the battle; whenever he lowered his arms, the people of Amalek started to win.
+\v 12 But Moses' arms became tired. So Aaron and Hur rolled a large stone for him to sit on. While he was sitting on it, those two held up his arms, one man on either side of him. In that way, they kept his arms lifted up until the sun went down.
+\v 13 In this way Joshua and the men with him defeated the people of Amalek in battle.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Write an account of this battle and then read it to Joshua. Also write that I will completely destroy the people of Amalek."
+\v 15 Then Moses built a stone altar there and named it "Yahweh is my flag."
+\v 16 He said, "A promise was made in front of the throne of Yahweh: Yahweh will fight against the people of Amalek forever!"
+
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-\s5
-\c 18
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-\p
-\v 1 Jethro, who was the priest for the people of Midian, and who was also Moses' father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for the Israelite people. He heard about how Yahweh had brought them out of Egypt.
-\v 2 Moses had sent his wife Zipporah and his two sons back home when he was returning to Egypt. But now Jethro came to him,
-\v 3 bringing Zipporah and her sons. One son was named Gershom, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "foreigner" because Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner living in another land."
-\v 4 Her other son was named Eliezer, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "God helps me" because Moses had said, "God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me and saved me from being killed by the king of Egypt."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 5 While Moses was camped with the Israelite people in the wilderness near Sinai, God's holy mountain, Jethro came to him, bringing along Moses' wife and two sons.
-\v 6 Jethro had sent a message to Moses, "I, your father-in-law, Jethro, am coming to see you. I am bringing your wife and her two sons!"
-
-\s5
-\v 7 So Moses went out of the campsite to meet his father-in-law. He bowed before him and kissed him on the cheek. They both asked each other, "Have you been well?" Then they went into Moses' tent.
-\v 8 Moses told Jethro everything that Yahweh had done to the king and all the other people in Egypt in order to help the Israelite people. He also told him about the troubles they had experienced on the way, and about how Yahweh had helped them.
-
-\s5
-\v 9 Jethro was happy when he heard all that Yahweh had done for the Israelite people.
-\v 10 He said, "Praise Yahweh, who has rescued you from the power of the Egyptian army, and out of the power of the king of the Egyptians (who is called Pharaoh), and has set the Israelites free from the control of the Egyptian people!
-\v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all other gods because he rescued you from the power of the proud Egyptians when they were causing you to suffer."
-
-\s5
-\v 12 Then Jethro brought an animal to sacrifice by burning it on the altar as an offering, and he also offered other sacrifices to God. Aaron and the Israelite elders went with them to eat a meal with Jethro to honor God.
-
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 13 The next day, Moses sat down at the place where he settled disputes among the people. The people were bringing their disputes to Moses from the morning until the evening.
-\v 14 When Jethro saw everything that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "Why are you doing all this for the people? Why are you doing this by yourself, and why are all the people standing around you from the morning until the evening, asking you to make decisions for them?"
-
-\s5
-\v 15 Moses replied, "I am doing this because the people keep coming to me to find out what God desires.
-\v 16 When they have a dispute about something, they come to me, and they ask me to decide which of them is right. I also tell them all of God's laws and instructions."
-
-\s5
-\v 17 Jethro said to him, "What you are doing is not good for you or for the people.
-\v 18 You and these people will wear yourselves out! This work is too much for you. You are not able to do it by yourself.
-\v 19 Now listen to what I will tell you to do. If you do what I suggest, God will help you. You should continue to speak to God and tell him about the people's disputes.
-\v 20 You should also teach them what God has commanded and instructed you. You should also explain to them how they should conduct their lives and the things that they should do.
-
-\s5
-\v 21 In addition, you should choose some other men to help you. Choose men who have respect for God and who will not accept bribes. Appoint some of them to make decisions for groups of ten people, some for groups of fifty people, some for groups of a hundred people, and some for groups of a thousand people.
-\v 22 Allow them to serve to settle disputes for the people. The difficult matters they can bring to you, but the matters that are not difficult, they can decide themselves. That will make the work easier for you as they help you do that work.
-\v 23 If you do that, and if God agrees, you will be able to endure the stress, and all the people will be able to go home peacefully with their disputes settled quickly."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that Jethro told him.
-\v 25 Then Moses chose capable men from among the Israelite people and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
-\v 26 Moses chose them to decide about the people's disputes. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they decided the matters that were not difficult by themselves.
-\v 27 Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro returned home.
-
-
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 18
+
+\p
+\v 1 Jethro, who was the priest for the people of Midian, and who was also Moses' father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for the Israelite people. He heard about how Yahweh had brought them out of Egypt.
+\v 2 Moses had sent his wife Zipporah and his two sons back home when he was returning to Egypt. But now Jethro came to him,
+\v 3 bringing Zipporah and her sons. One son was named Gershom, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "foreigner" because Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner living in another land."
+\v 4 Her other son was named Eliezer, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means "God helps me" because Moses had said, "God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me and saved me from being killed by the king of Egypt."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 5 While Moses was camped with the Israelite people in the wilderness near Sinai, God's holy mountain, Jethro came to him, bringing along Moses' wife and two sons.
+\v 6 Jethro had sent a message to Moses, "I, your father-in-law, Jethro, am coming to see you. I am bringing your wife and her two sons!"
+
+\s5
+\v 7 So Moses went out of the campsite to meet his father-in-law. He bowed before him and kissed him on the cheek. They both asked each other, "Have you been well?" Then they went into Moses' tent.
+\v 8 Moses told Jethro everything that Yahweh had done to the king and all the other people in Egypt in order to help the Israelite people. He also told him about the troubles they had experienced on the way, and about how Yahweh had helped them.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Jethro was happy when he heard all that Yahweh had done for the Israelite people.
+\v 10 He said, "Praise Yahweh, who has rescued you from the power of the Egyptian army, and out of the power of the king of the Egyptians (who is called Pharaoh), and has set the Israelites free from the control of the Egyptian people!
+\v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all other gods because he rescued you from the power of the proud Egyptians when they were causing you to suffer."
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Then Jethro brought an animal to sacrifice by burning it on the altar as an offering, and he also offered other sacrifices to God. Aaron and the Israelite elders went with them to eat a meal with Jethro to honor God.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 The next day, Moses sat down at the place where he settled disputes among the people. The people were bringing their disputes to Moses from the morning until the evening.
+\v 14 When Jethro saw everything that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "Why are you doing all this for the people? Why are you doing this by yourself, and why are all the people standing around you from the morning until the evening, asking you to make decisions for them?"
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Moses replied, "I am doing this because the people keep coming to me to find out what God desires.
+\v 16 When they have a dispute about something, they come to me, and they ask me to decide which of them is right. I also tell them all of God's laws and instructions."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Jethro said to him, "What you are doing is not good for you or for the people.
+\v 18 You and these people will wear yourselves out! This work is too much for you. You are not able to do it by yourself.
+\v 19 Now listen to what I will tell you to do. If you do what I suggest, God will help you. You should continue to speak to God and tell him about the people's disputes.
+\v 20 You should also teach them what God has commanded and instructed you. You should also explain to them how they should conduct their lives and the things that they should do.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 In addition, you should choose some other men to help you. Choose men who have respect for God and who will not accept bribes. Appoint some of them to make decisions for groups of ten people, some for groups of fifty people, some for groups of a hundred people, and some for groups of a thousand people.
+\v 22 Allow them to serve to settle disputes for the people. The difficult matters they can bring to you, but the matters that are not difficult, they can decide themselves. That will make the work easier for you as they help you do that work.
+\v 23 If you do that, and if God agrees, you will be able to endure the stress, and all the people will be able to go home peacefully with their disputes settled quickly."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that Jethro told him.
+\v 25 Then Moses chose capable men from among the Israelite people and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
+\v 26 Moses chose them to decide about the people's disputes. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they decided the matters that were not difficult by themselves.
+\v 27 Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro returned home.
+
+
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-\c 19
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-\v 1 In the third month after leaving Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sinai. 
-\v 2 After they left Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they set up their tents at the base of the mountain.
-
-\s5
-\v 3 Moses climbed up the mountain to talk with God. Yahweh called to him from the top of the mountain and said, "This is what I want you to say to the Israelite people, the descendants of Jacob,
-\v 4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. You have seen what I did for you and how I brought you as if you had been on eagles' wings here to me.
-\v 5 So now, if you do what I tell you and obey all that I command you, you will be my own people. You will be my special possession from among all of the people, for all the earth is mine.
-\v 6 You will be people over whom I will rule, and you will be a kingdom where everyone will worship me like priests, and you will be a nation only for me.' That is what you must tell the Israelite people."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 7 So Moses went down the mountain and called the elders of the people. He told them everything that Yahweh had told him to tell them.
-\v 8 The people all said, "We will do everything that Yahweh has told us to do." Then Moses climbed back up the mountain and reported to Yahweh what the people had said.
-\p
-\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Moses "Listen carefully. I will come to you from inside a thick cloud. When I am speaking to you, the people will hear it, and they will always believe that you are their leader." Then Moses told Yahweh what the people said.
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-\s5
-\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go back down to the people again. Tell them to get ready for my coming. They must purify themselves today and tomorrow, and wash their clothes, too.
-\v 11 They must do that to be ready on the third day. On that day I will come down to Mount Sinai to where all the people can see me.
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-\s5
-\v 12 You must make a boundary around the base of the mountain, and tell them, 'Be sure that you do not climb the mountain or even go near it. Anyone who even touches the base of the mountain must be killed.'
-\v 13 Do not let anyone touch any person or any animal that touches the mountain. You must kill any person or animal that touches the mountain by throwing stones at it or shooting it with arrows. But when you hear a long, loud trumpet sound, the people can come close to the base of the mountain."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 14 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people to purify themselves and to get ready for Yahweh's coming. They did what Moses told them to do, and they also washed their clothes.
-\v 15 Then Moses said to the people, "Be ready on the third day, and you men must not sleep with your wives until after then."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 16 On the third day, during the morning, there was thunder and lightning and a very dark cloud on the mountain. A trumpet sounded very loudly, and the people in the camp shook because they were very afraid.
-\v 17 Then Moses led the people outside the camp to meet with God. They stood around the base of the mountain.
-\v 18 Then Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai so that the entire mountain was covered in smoke and surrounded by fire. The smoke rose up like the smoke from the chimney of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
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-\s5
-\v 19 As the sound of the trumpet continued to become louder, Moses spoke to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him in a loud voice that sounded like thunder.
-\v 20 Then Yahweh came down again onto the top of Mount Sinai, and he summoned Moses to come up to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.
-\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down again and warn the people not to cross the boundary in order to look at me. If they do that, many of them will die.
-\v 22 Also, the priests who come near me must purify themselves, because I am coming to them. If they do not do that, I will punish them."
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-\s5
-\p
-\v 23 Then Moses said to Yahweh, "The people will not climb the mountain because you commanded them, saying, 'Set a boundary around the mountain, to set it apart.'"
-\v 24 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down the mountain and bring Aaron back up with you. But do not allow the priests or other people to cross the boundary to come up to me. If they cross it, I will punish them."
-\v 25 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people what Yahweh had said.
+
+
+\s5
+\c 19
+\p
+\v 1 In the third month after leaving Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sinai. 
+\v 2 After they left Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they set up their tents at the base of the mountain.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Moses climbed up the mountain to talk with God. Yahweh called to him from the top of the mountain and said, "This is what I want you to say to the Israelite people, the descendants of Jacob,
+\v 4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. You have seen what I did for you and how I brought you as if you had been on eagles' wings here to me.
+\v 5 So now, if you do what I tell you and obey all that I command you, you will be my own people. You will be my special possession from among all of the people, for all the earth is mine.
+\v 6 You will be people over whom I will rule, and you will be a kingdom where everyone will worship me like priests, and you will be a nation only for me.' That is what you must tell the Israelite people."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 So Moses went down the mountain and called the elders of the people. He told them everything that Yahweh had told him to tell them.
+\v 8 The people all said, "We will do everything that Yahweh has told us to do." Then Moses climbed back up the mountain and reported to Yahweh what the people had said.
+\p
+\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Moses "Listen carefully. I will come to you from inside a thick cloud. When I am speaking to you, the people will hear it, and they will always believe that you are their leader." Then Moses told Yahweh what the people said.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go back down to the people again. Tell them to get ready for my coming. They must purify themselves today and tomorrow, and wash their clothes, too.
+\v 11 They must do that to be ready on the third day. On that day I will come down to Mount Sinai to where all the people can see me.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 You must make a boundary around the base of the mountain, and tell them, 'Be sure that you do not climb the mountain or even go near it. Anyone who even touches the base of the mountain must be killed.'
+\v 13 Do not let anyone touch any person or any animal that touches the mountain. You must kill any person or animal that touches the mountain by throwing stones at it or shooting it with arrows. But when you hear a long, loud trumpet sound, the people can come close to the base of the mountain."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people to purify themselves and to get ready for Yahweh's coming. They did what Moses told them to do, and they also washed their clothes.
+\v 15 Then Moses said to the people, "Be ready on the third day, and you men must not sleep with your wives until after then."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 On the third day, during the morning, there was thunder and lightning and a very dark cloud on the mountain. A trumpet sounded very loudly, and the people in the camp shook because they were very afraid.
+\v 17 Then Moses led the people outside the camp to meet with God. They stood around the base of the mountain.
+\v 18 Then Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai so that the entire mountain was covered in smoke and surrounded by fire. The smoke rose up like the smoke from the chimney of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 As the sound of the trumpet continued to become louder, Moses spoke to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him in a loud voice that sounded like thunder.
+\v 20 Then Yahweh came down again onto the top of Mount Sinai, and he summoned Moses to come up to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.
+\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down again and warn the people not to cross the boundary in order to look at me. If they do that, many of them will die.
+\v 22 Also, the priests who come near me must purify themselves, because I am coming to them. If they do not do that, I will punish them."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 23 Then Moses said to Yahweh, "The people will not climb the mountain because you commanded them, saying, 'Set a boundary around the mountain, to set it apart.'"
+\v 24 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down the mountain and bring Aaron back up with you. But do not allow the priests or other people to cross the boundary to come up to me. If they cross it, I will punish them."
+\v 25 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people what Yahweh had said.

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-\c 20
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-\p
-\v 1 Then God spoke these words to the Israelite people.
-\v 2 "I am Yahweh your God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.
-\v 3 You must worship only me; you must not worship any other god.
-
-\s5
-\v 4 You must not carve a figure to worship that represents anything in the sky or that is on the ground or that is in the water under the ground.
-\v 5 You must not bow down to any idol and worship it because I am Yahweh your God, and I will not allow you to worship any other gods. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but also I will punish their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
-\v 6 However, I will never stop loving thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments. 
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 7 Do not use my name carelessly because I am Yahweh your God, the one whom you should worship, and I will certainly punish those who use my name for wrong purposes.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 8 Do not forget that the seventh day of every week belongs to me, so keep those days only for me.
-\v 9 There are six days each week for you to do all your work,
-\v 10 but the seventh day is a day of rest, a day dedicated to me, Yahweh your God, the one whom you should worship. On that day you must not do any work. You and your sons and daughters and your male and female slaves must not work. You must not even force your livestock to work, and you must not allow foreigners to work, those strangers who are living in your country.
-\v 11 I, Yahweh, created the sky, the earth, the ocean, and everything that is in them in six days. Then I stopped my work of creating everything and rested on the seventh day. That is the reason that I, Yahweh, have blessed the rest day and set it apart to be a sacred day.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 12 Honor your father and your mother, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh your God, will give you.
-\p
-\v 13 Do not murder anyone.
-\p
-\v 14 Do not commit adultery with anyone.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 15 Do not steal anything.
-\p
-\v 16 Do not falsely accuse anyone of committing a crime.
-\p
-\v 17 Do not covet someone else's house, someone else's wife, someone else's male or female slave, someone else's livestock, someone else's donkeys, or anything else that another person owns."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 18 When the people heard the thunder and saw the lightning, and when they heard the sound of the trumpet and saw the smoke on the mountain, they were afraid and trembled. They stood at a distance
-\v 19 and said to Moses, "If you speak to us, we will listen. But do not let God speak anymore to us. We are afraid that if he speaks anymore to us, we will die."
-\v 20 Moses replied to the people, "Do not be afraid! God has come to determine how you will behave. He wants you to honor him and to not sin."
-\p
-\v 21 Then, as the people watched from a distance, Moses went close to the black cloud where God was.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, "Say this to the Israelite people, 'You have heard how I, Yahweh, have spoken to you from heaven. 
-\v 23 I told you that you must not make any idols of silver or gold that you will worship instead of me.
-
-\s5
-\v 24 Make for me an altar from earth. Sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, your offerings to promise friendship with me, and also your sheep and oxen. Worship me in any place that I choose for you to honor me; if you do that, I will come to you and bless you.
-\v 25 If you make for me an altar from stones, do not make it from stones that you have cut to make them look nice because you will make the altar unsuitable for worshiping me if you use tools to cut the stones.
-\v 26 Do not make an altar that has steps in front of it because if you do that, God could see your naked body as you go up the steps.'"
-
-
-
+
+
+\s5
+\c 20
+
+\p
+\v 1 Then God spoke these words to the Israelite people.
+\v 2 "I am Yahweh your God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.
+\v 3 You must worship only me; you must not worship any other god.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 You must not carve a figure to worship that represents anything in the sky or that is on the ground or that is in the water under the ground.
+\v 5 You must not bow down to any idol and worship it because I am Yahweh your God, and I will not allow you to worship any other gods. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but also I will punish their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
+\v 6 However, I will never stop loving thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments. 
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 Do not use my name carelessly because I am Yahweh your God, the one whom you should worship, and I will certainly punish those who use my name for wrong purposes.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Do not forget that the seventh day of every week belongs to me, so keep those days only for me.
+\v 9 There are six days each week for you to do all your work,
+\v 10 but the seventh day is a day of rest, a day dedicated to me, Yahweh your God, the one whom you should worship. On that day you must not do any work. You and your sons and daughters and your male and female slaves must not work. You must not even force your livestock to work, and you must not allow foreigners to work, those strangers who are living in your country.
+\v 11 I, Yahweh, created the sky, the earth, the ocean, and everything that is in them in six days. Then I stopped my work of creating everything and rested on the seventh day. That is the reason that I, Yahweh, have blessed the rest day and set it apart to be a sacred day.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Honor your father and your mother, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh your God, will give you.
+\p
+\v 13 Do not murder anyone.
+\p
+\v 14 Do not commit adultery with anyone.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Do not steal anything.
+\p
+\v 16 Do not falsely accuse anyone of committing a crime.
+\p
+\v 17 Do not covet someone else's house, someone else's wife, someone else's male or female slave, someone else's livestock, someone else's donkeys, or anything else that another person owns."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 When the people heard the thunder and saw the lightning, and when they heard the sound of the trumpet and saw the smoke on the mountain, they were afraid and trembled. They stood at a distance
+\v 19 and said to Moses, "If you speak to us, we will listen. But do not let God speak anymore to us. We are afraid that if he speaks anymore to us, we will die."
+\v 20 Moses replied to the people, "Do not be afraid! God has come to determine how you will behave. He wants you to honor him and to not sin."
+\p
+\v 21 Then, as the people watched from a distance, Moses went close to the black cloud where God was.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, "Say this to the Israelite people, 'You have heard how I, Yahweh, have spoken to you from heaven. 
+\v 23 I told you that you must not make any idols of silver or gold that you will worship instead of me.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Make for me an altar from earth. Sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, your offerings to promise friendship with me, and also your sheep and oxen. Worship me in any place that I choose for you to honor me; if you do that, I will come to you and bless you.
+\v 25 If you make for me an altar from stones, do not make it from stones that you have cut to make them look nice because you will make the altar unsuitable for worshiping me if you use tools to cut the stones.
+\v 26 Do not make an altar that has steps in front of it because if you do that, God could see your naked body as you go up the steps.'"
+
+
+

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-\s5
-\c 24
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-\p
-\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses. "Come up to me on top of this mountain, you and Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu. Also take along seventy of the Israelite elders. While you are still some distance from the top of the mountain, there you may worship me.
-\v 2 Moses, I will allow you alone to come near to me. The others must not come near, and the rest of the people must not come up the mountain."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 3 Moses went and told the people everything that Yahweh had said and all that he had commanded. The people all replied together, saying, "We will do everything that Yahweh has told us to do."
-\v 4 Then Moses wrote down everything that Yahweh had commanded. Early the next morning Moses built a stone altar. He also set up twelve stones, one for each of the Israelite tribes.
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-\s5
-\v 5 He also chose some young men. They burned sacrifices to Yahweh and they also sacrificed some cattle as offerings to promise friendship with him.
-\v 6 Moses took half of the blood of the animals that were slaughtered and put it in bowls. The other half of the blood he threw against the altar.
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-\s5
-\v 7 Then he took the scroll on which he had written everything that Yahweh had commanded in the covenant that he had made, and he read it aloud while all the people were listening. Then all the people said, "We will do all that Yahweh has told us to do. We will obey everything."
-\p
-\v 8 Then Moses took the blood that was in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that confirms the covenant that Yahweh has made with you when he gave you all these commands."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 9 Then Moses along with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy Israelite elders went up the mountain,
-\v 10 and they saw God, the one whom the Israelite people worship. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of blue stones called sapphires. They were as clear as the sky is when there are no clouds.
-\v 11 God did not harm those Israelite elders because of their having seen him. They saw God, and they ate and drank together!
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on top of this mountain. While you are here, I will give you two stone slabs on which I have written all the laws that I have given to you to teach the people."
-\v 13 Then Moses went with his servant Joshua part of the way up the mountain where God was.
-
-\s5
-\v 14 Now Moses had said to the elders, "Stay here with the other people until we return! Do not forget that Aaron and Hur will be with you, so if anyone has a dispute while I am gone, he can go to those two men." 
-\v 15 Then Moses went the rest of the way up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
-
-\s5
-\v 16 The glory of Yahweh came down on the mountain and covered it for six days. On the seventh day, Yahweh called to Moses from the middle of the cloud.
-\v 17 When the Israelite people looked at the top of the mountain, the glory of Yahweh was like a big fire burning there.
-\v 18 Moses went into the cloud on top of the mountain and was there for forty days and nights.
-
-
-
+
+
+\s5
+\c 24
+
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses. "Come up to me on top of this mountain, you and Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu. Also take along seventy of the Israelite elders. While you are still some distance from the top of the mountain, there you may worship me.
+\v 2 Moses, I will allow you alone to come near to me. The others must not come near, and the rest of the people must not come up the mountain."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 3 Moses went and told the people everything that Yahweh had said and all that he had commanded. The people all replied together, saying, "We will do everything that Yahweh has told us to do."
+\v 4 Then Moses wrote down everything that Yahweh had commanded. Early the next morning Moses built a stone altar. He also set up twelve stones, one for each of the Israelite tribes.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 He also chose some young men. They burned sacrifices to Yahweh and they also sacrificed some cattle as offerings to promise friendship with him.
+\v 6 Moses took half of the blood of the animals that were slaughtered and put it in bowls. The other half of the blood he threw against the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Then he took the scroll on which he had written everything that Yahweh had commanded in the covenant that he had made, and he read it aloud while all the people were listening. Then all the people said, "We will do all that Yahweh has told us to do. We will obey everything."
+\p
+\v 8 Then Moses took the blood that was in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that confirms the covenant that Yahweh has made with you when he gave you all these commands."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Then Moses along with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy Israelite elders went up the mountain,
+\v 10 and they saw God, the one whom the Israelite people worship. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of blue stones called sapphires. They were as clear as the sky is when there are no clouds.
+\v 11 God did not harm those Israelite elders because of their having seen him. They saw God, and they ate and drank together!
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on top of this mountain. While you are here, I will give you two stone slabs on which I have written all the laws that I have given to you to teach the people."
+\v 13 Then Moses went with his servant Joshua part of the way up the mountain where God was.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Now Moses had said to the elders, "Stay here with the other people until we return! Do not forget that Aaron and Hur will be with you, so if anyone has a dispute while I am gone, he can go to those two men." 
+\v 15 Then Moses went the rest of the way up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 The glory of Yahweh came down on the mountain and covered it for six days. On the seventh day, Yahweh called to Moses from the middle of the cloud.
+\v 17 When the Israelite people looked at the top of the mountain, the glory of Yahweh was like a big fire burning there.
+\v 18 Moses went into the cloud on top of the mountain and was there for forty days and nights.
+
+
+

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-\s5
-\c 32
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-\p
-\v 1 Moses stayed on top of the mountain a long time. When the people saw that he was not returning, they went to Aaron and said to him, "Make us gods who will lead us on our journey. We do not know what happened to that man Moses, who brought us here out of Egypt."
-\v 2 Aaron said to them, "All right, I will do that. Tell your wives and your children to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me."
-
-\s5
-\v 3 So the people took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
-\v 4 He melted the gold in a fire. He poured the gold into a mold and made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, "This is the god of the Israelite people! This is the one who rescued us from the land of Egypt!"
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 5 When Aaron saw how the people reacted, he built an altar in front of the bull. Then he announced, "Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!"
-\v 6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to restore fellowship with others. Then they sat down to eat and to drink wine. After a while, they got up and had a wild party.
-
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 7 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down from the mountain because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have become bad.
-\v 8 They have already left the road that I showed them and have stopped obeying me! They have made a statue of a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They are saying, 'This is the god of the Israelite people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!'
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 9 I know that these people are very stubborn.
-\v 10 I am very angry with them, so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation."
-\p
-\v 11 But Moses pleaded with his God, Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, you should not be angry with your people! These are the people whom you saved from Egypt with very great power!
-
-\s5
-\v 12 Do not do anything that would allow the people of Egypt to say, 'Their god led them out from our country, but he did that only because he wanted to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely! Do not do to your people this terrible thing that you have just said that you will do! Stop being so angry! Change your mind! 
-\v 13 Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, saying, 'I will enable you to have as many descendants as the stars that are in the sky.' You said to them, 'I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.'"
-\p
-\v 14 So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 15 Then Moses turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
-\v 16 God himself had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 17 Joshua heard the people shouting very loudly. So when Moses got near the camp, Joshua met him and said, "There is a noise in the camp that sounds like the noise of a battle!"
-\v 18 But Moses said, 
-\q "No, that does not sound as though the people have won a victory;
-\q it does not sound as though they have been defeated in a battle! 
-\q It sounds as though they are singing!"
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 19 As soon as Moses came close to the camp and saw the statue of the bull and the people dancing, he became very angry. He threw the stone tablets down onto the ground at the base of the mountain, and they broke.
-\v 20 Then he took the statue of the bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. When it cooled, he ground it into fine powder. Then he mixed the powder with water and forced the Israelite people to drink it.
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-\s5
-\v 21 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Did these people do something to you that led you to make them sin in this way?"
-\v 22 Aaron replied, "Please do not be angry with me, my lord. You know that these people are likely to do wicked things.
-\v 23 They said to me, 'Make for us an idol who will lead us on our journey! As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'
-\v 24 So I said to them, 'Everyone who is wearing gold earrings should take them off.' So they took them off and gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!"
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 25 Moses saw that Aaron had allowed the people to get out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israelite people were foolish.
-\v 26 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come close to me!" So all the men in the tribe of Levi gathered around him.
-\v 27 Then he said to them, "Yahweh, the God of the Israelite people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this gate to the other one. Each one of you must kill the other men, whether they are your brother, your friend, or your neighbor."
-
-\s5
-\v 28 The men in the tribe of Levi did what Moses told them to do, and they killed three thousand men on that day.
-\v 29 Moses said to the men in the tribe of Levi, "Today you have become special servants of Yahweh by killing even your own sons and your brothers. As a result Yahweh has blessed you."
-
-\s5
-\p
-\v 30 The next day, Moses said to the people, "You have sinned very greatly. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can persuade him to forgive you for sinning like this."
-\v 31 So Moses went up the mountain and said to Yahweh, "I am sorry to admit that these people sinned very greatly when they made for themselves a gold idol and worshiped it.
-\v 32 But now I ask you to forgive them for their sin. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people."
-
-\s5
-\v 33 But Yahweh said to Moses, "It is only those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
-\v 34 Now go back down and lead the Israelite people to the place about which I told you. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I decide, I will punish them for their sin."
-\p
-\v 35 Later Yahweh caused the people to become sick because they had told Aaron to make the statue of a young bull.
- 
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+
+\s5
+\c 32
+
+\p
+\v 1 Moses stayed on top of the mountain a long time. When the people saw that he was not returning, they went to Aaron and said to him, "Make us gods who will lead us on our journey. We do not know what happened to that man Moses, who brought us here out of Egypt."
+\v 2 Aaron said to them, "All right, I will do that. Tell your wives and your children to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 So the people took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
+\v 4 He melted the gold in a fire. He poured the gold into a mold and made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, "This is the god of the Israelite people! This is the one who rescued us from the land of Egypt!"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 5 When Aaron saw how the people reacted, he built an altar in front of the bull. Then he announced, "Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!"
+\v 6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to restore fellowship with others. Then they sat down to eat and to drink wine. After a while, they got up and had a wild party.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down from the mountain because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have become bad.
+\v 8 They have already left the road that I showed them and have stopped obeying me! They have made a statue of a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They are saying, 'This is the god of the Israelite people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!'
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 I know that these people are very stubborn.
+\v 10 I am very angry with them, so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation."
+\p
+\v 11 But Moses pleaded with his God, Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, you should not be angry with your people! These are the people whom you saved from Egypt with very great power!
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Do not do anything that would allow the people of Egypt to say, 'Their god led them out from our country, but he did that only because he wanted to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely! Do not do to your people this terrible thing that you have just said that you will do! Stop being so angry! Change your mind! 
+\v 13 Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, saying, 'I will enable you to have as many descendants as the stars that are in the sky.' You said to them, 'I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.'"
+\p
+\v 14 So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Then Moses turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
+\v 16 God himself had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 Joshua heard the people shouting very loudly. So when Moses got near the camp, Joshua met him and said, "There is a noise in the camp that sounds like the noise of a battle!"
+\v 18 But Moses said, 
+\q "No, that does not sound as though the people have won a victory;
+\q it does not sound as though they have been defeated in a battle! 
+\q It sounds as though they are singing!"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 As soon as Moses came close to the camp and saw the statue of the bull and the people dancing, he became very angry. He threw the stone tablets down onto the ground at the base of the mountain, and they broke.
+\v 20 Then he took the statue of the bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. When it cooled, he ground it into fine powder. Then he mixed the powder with water and forced the Israelite people to drink it.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Did these people do something to you that led you to make them sin in this way?"
+\v 22 Aaron replied, "Please do not be angry with me, my lord. You know that these people are likely to do wicked things.
+\v 23 They said to me, 'Make for us an idol who will lead us on our journey! As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'
+\v 24 So I said to them, 'Everyone who is wearing gold earrings should take them off.' So they took them off and gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!"
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+\v 25 Moses saw that Aaron had allowed the people to get out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israelite people were foolish.
+\v 26 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come close to me!" So all the men in the tribe of Levi gathered around him.
+\v 27 Then he said to them, "Yahweh, the God of the Israelite people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this gate to the other one. Each one of you must kill the other men, whether they are your brother, your friend, or your neighbor."
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+\v 28 The men in the tribe of Levi did what Moses told them to do, and they killed three thousand men on that day.
+\v 29 Moses said to the men in the tribe of Levi, "Today you have become special servants of Yahweh by killing even your own sons and your brothers. As a result Yahweh has blessed you."
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+\v 30 The next day, Moses said to the people, "You have sinned very greatly. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can persuade him to forgive you for sinning like this."
+\v 31 So Moses went up the mountain and said to Yahweh, "I am sorry to admit that these people sinned very greatly when they made for themselves a gold idol and worshiped it.
+\v 32 But now I ask you to forgive them for their sin. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people."
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+\v 33 But Yahweh said to Moses, "It is only those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
+\v 34 Now go back down and lead the Israelite people to the place about which I told you. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I decide, I will punish them for their sin."
+\p
+\v 35 Later Yahweh caused the people to become sick because they had told Aaron to make the statue of a young bull.
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