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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we heard about when Moses went to the burning bush and how God told him to go

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to Egypt and to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.

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We also heard that Pharaoh did not listen to the words of Moses and Aaron and how he

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refused to let them go and in fact he took away the straw and told them to make bricks

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without straw.

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And today we're going to hear about how the stubbornness of Pharaoh brings about the 10

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plagues.

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We're going to hear today about the first seven plagues and we're going to see how these

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things develop and after each plague how Pharaoh is given the chance and opportunity

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to let the Israelites go only to refuse.

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Alright let's begin.

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Today's reading is from Exodus chapter 7, 8 and 9.

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Chapter 7.

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So the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother

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shall be your prophet.

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You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send

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the children of Israel out of his land.

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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

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But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay my hand on Egypt and bring my armies and

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my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt

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and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

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Then Moses and Aaron did so, just as the Lord commanded them, so they did.

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And Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Show a

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miracle for yourselves, then you shall say to Aaron, Take your rod and cast it before

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Pharaoh and let it become a serpent.

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So Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh and they did so, just as the Lord commanded.

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And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent.

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But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, so the magicians of Egypt they

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also did in like manner with their enchantments.

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For every man threw down his rod and they became serpents.

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But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods, and Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did

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not heed them as the Lord had said.

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So the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hard, he refuses to let the people go.

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Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the

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river's bank to meet him, and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in

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your hand.

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And you shall say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let

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my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.

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But indeed until now you would not hear.

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Thus says the Lord, By this you shall know that I am the Lord.

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Behold I will strike the waters which are in the river with the rod that is in my hand,

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and they shall be turned to blood.

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And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink, and the Egyptians

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will loathe to drink the water of the river.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod and stretch out your hand over

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the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all

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their pools of water, that they may become blood.

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And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in buckets of wood and

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pitchers of stone.

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And Moses and Aaron did so just as the Lord commanded.

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So he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh,

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and in the sight of his servants.

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And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

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The fish that were in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink

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the water of the river, so there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Then the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments, and Pharaoh's heart grew hard,

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and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said.

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And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither was his heart moved by this.

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So all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, because they could not

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drink the water of the river, and seven days passed after the Lord had struck the river.

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After eight, and the Lord spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Thus says the

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Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your territory with frogs.

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So the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house,

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into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your

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ovens, and into your kneading bowls.

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And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your rod over

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the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land

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of Egypt.

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So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered

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the land of Egypt.

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And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord, that he may take away

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the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice

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to the Lord.

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And Moses said to Pharaoh, Accept the honor of saying, when I shall intercede for you,

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for your servants and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses,

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that they may remain in the river only.

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So he said, Tomorrow.

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And he said, Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like

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the Lord our God.

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And the frogs shall depart from you, from your houses, from your servants, and from

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your people.

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They shall remain in the river only.

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Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the Lord concerning

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the frogs, which he had brought against Pharaoh.

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So the Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out

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of the courtyards, and out of the fields.

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They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

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But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart, and did not heed them,

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as the Lord had said.

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So the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land,

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so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

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And they did so.

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For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and

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it became lice on man and beast.

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All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Now the magicians so worked with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not.

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So there were lice on man and beast.

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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God.

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But Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, just as the Lord had said.

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And the Lord said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, as

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he comes out to the water.

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Then say to him, Thus says the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you

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and your servants, on your people and into your houses.

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The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on

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which you stand.

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And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that

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no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the

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midst of the land.

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I will make a difference between my people and your people.

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Tomorrow this sign shall be.

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And the Lord did so.

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Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants' houses, and

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into all the land of Egypt.

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The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.

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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, Go, sacrifice your God in the land.

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And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination

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of the Egyptians to the Lord our God.

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If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone

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us?

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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he will

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command us.

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So Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the

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wilderness.

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Only you shall not go very far away.

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Intercede for me.

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Then Moses said, Indeed, I am going out from you, and I will entreat the Lord, that the

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swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people.

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But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice

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to the Lord.

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So Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord.

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And the Lord did according to the word of Moses.

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He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people.

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No one remained.

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But Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also.

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Neither would he let the people go.

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Chapter 9

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Go into Pharaoh and tell him.

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Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them, behold the hand of the Lord will

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be on your cattle, in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen,

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and on the sheep.

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A very severe pestilence.

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And the Lord will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock

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of Egypt.

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So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.

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Then the Lord appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the

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land.

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So the Lord did this thing on the next day and all the livestock of Egypt died.

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But the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

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Then Pharaoh sent and indeed, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead.

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But the heart of Pharaoh became hard and he did not let the people go.

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So the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace,

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and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh, and it will become

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fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it will cause boils that break out in sores on

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man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Then they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered

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them toward heaven, and they caused boils that break out in sores on man and beast.

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Then the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils

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were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

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But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not heed them, just as the Lord

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had spoken to Moses.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and

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say to him, Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve

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me.

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For at this time I will send all my plagues to your very heart, and on your servants,

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and on your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

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Now if I had stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then

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you would have been cut off from the earth.

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But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show my power in you, and

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that my name may be declared in all the earth.

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As yet you exalt yourself against my people, in that you will not let them go.

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Behold, tomorrow, about this time, I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as

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has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.

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Therefore send now and gather your livestock, and all that you have in the field, for the

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hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is

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not brought home, and they shall die.

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He who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and

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his livestock flee to the houses.

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But he who did not regard the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in

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the field.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail

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in all the land of Egypt, on man, on beast, and on every herb of the field, throughout

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the land of Egypt.

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And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire

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darted to the ground, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

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So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, so very heavy that there was none like

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it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

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And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both

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man and beast.

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And the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

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Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

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And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this

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time, the Lord is righteous, and my people and I are wicked.

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Entreat the Lord that there may be no more mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough.

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I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.

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So Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands

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to the Lord.

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The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth

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is the Lord's.

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But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear the Lord God.

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Now the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was

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in the bud.

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But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops.

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So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord, then

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the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet

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more, and he hardened his heart, he and his servants.

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So the heart of Pharaoh was hard, neither would he let the children of Israel go, as

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the Lord had spoken by Moses.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.