Chapter 80
Pharaoh and say unto him, send my people that they may serve Me.
48. Now therefore send us, that we may take a journey for three days in the wilderness, and there may sacrifice to Him, for from the days of our going down to Egypt, He has not taken from our hands, either burnt offering, oblation or sacrifice, and if thou wilt not send us, his anger will be kindled against thee, and He will smite Egypt either with the plague or with the sword.
49. And Pharaoh said to them, tell me now his power and his might. And they said to him, He created the heaven and the earth, the seas and all their fishes, he formed the light, created the darkness, caused rain upon the earth and watered it, and made the herbage and grass to sprout, He created man and beast and the animals of the forest, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and by his mouth they live and die.
50. Surely He created thee in thy mother's womb, and put into thee the breath of life, and reared thee and placed thee upon the royal throne of Egypt, and He will take thy breath and soul from thee and return thee to the ground whence thou wast taken.
51. And the anger of the king was kindled at their words, and he said to them, but who amongst all the gods of nations can do this? My river is mine, and I have made it for myself. [see Ezekiel, ch. 29, v. 3 ]
52. And he drove them from him, and he ordered the labor upon Israel to be more severe than it was yesterday and before [or lately ].
53. And Moses and Aaron went out from the king's presence, and they saw the children of Israel in an evil condition for the task masters had made their labor exceedingly heavy.
54. And Moses returned to the Lord and said, why hast Thou ill treated thy people? For since I came to speak Pharaoh about what Thou didst send me for, he has exceedingly ill used the children of Israel.
55. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, thou wilt see that with an outstretched hand and heavy plagues, Pharaoh will send the children of Israel from his land.
56. And Moses and Aaron dwelt amongst their brethren, the children of Israel, in Egypt.
57. And as for the children of Israel, the Egyptians embittered their lives, with the heavy work which they imposed upon them.
1. AND at the end of two years, the Lord again sent Moses to Pharaoh to bring forth the children of Israel, and to send them out of the land of Egypt. 2a. And Moses went and came to the house of Pharaoh, and he spoke to him the words of the Lord, who had sent him, but Pharaoh would not hearken to the voice of the Lord. 2b. And God roused his might in Egypt upon Pharaoh and his subjects, and God smote Pharaoh and his people with very great and sore plagues.
3. And the Lord sent plagues by the hand of Aaron and turned all the waters of Egypt into blood, with all their streams and rivers.
4. And when an Egyptian came to drink and draw water, he looked into his pitcher, and behold all the water was turned into blood; and when he came to drink from his cup the water in the cup became blood.
5. And when a woman kneaded her dough and cooked her victuals, their appearance was turned into that of blood.
6. And the Lord sent another plague and caused all their waters to bring forth frogs, and all the frogs came into the houses of the Egyptians.
7. And when the Egyptians drank, their bellies were filled with frogs and they danced in their bellies as they dance in the river.
8. And all their drinking water and cooking water turned into frogs, also when they layed in their beds their perspiration bred frogs.
9. Notwithstanding all this the anger of the Lord did not turn from them, and his hand was stretched out against all the Egyptians to smite them with every heavy plague.
10. And He sent and smote their dust to lice, and the lice became in Egypt to the height of two cubits upon the earth.
11. The lice were also very numerous in the flesh of man and beast, in all the inhabitants of Egypt, also upon the king and queen the Lord sent the lice, and it grieved Egypt exceedingly on account of the lice.
12. Notwithstanding this, the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and his hand was still stretched out over Egypt.
13. And the Lord sent all kinds of beasts of the field into Egypt, and they came and destroyed all Egypt, man and beast, and trees, and all things that were in Egypt.
14. And the Lord sent fiery serpents, scorpions, mice, weazles, toads, together with others that creep in dust.
15. Flies, hornets, fleas, bugs and gnats, each swarmt according to its kind. [In the 169 . Bible it is translated as swarm of flies, but here it appears to be a mixture of all sorts. ]
16. And all reptiles and winged animals according to their kind came to Egypt and grieved the Egyptians exceedingly.
17. And the fleas and flies came into the eyes and ears of the Egyptians.18. And the hornet came upon them and drove them away, and they removed from it into their inner rooms, and it pursued them.
19. And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm of animals, they locked their doors after them, and God ordered the Sulanuth [unknown animal] which was in the sea, to come up and go into Egypt.
20. And she had long arms, ten cubits in length of the cubit of a man.
21. And she went upon the roofs and uncovered the raftering [uncertain translation] and flooring and cut them, and stretched forth her arm into the house and removed the lock and the bolt, and opened the houses of Egypt.
22. Afterward came the swarm of animals into the houses of Egypt, and the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians, and it grieved them exceedingly.
23. Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away from the Egyptians, and his hand was yet stretched forth against them.
24. And God sent pestilence, and the pestilence pervaded Egypt, in the horses and asses, and in the camels, in herds of oxen and sheep and in man.
25. And when the Egyptians rose up early in the morning to take their cattle to pasture they found all their cattle dead.
26. And there remained of the cattle of the Egyptians only one in ten. And of the cattle belonging to Israel in Goshen not one died.
27. And God sent a burning inflammation in the flesh of the Egyptians, which burst their skins, and it became a severe itch in all the Egyptians from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their heads.
28. And many boils were in their flesh, that their flesh wasted away until it became rotten and putrid.
29. Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and his hand was still stretched out over all Egypt.
30. And the Lord sent a very heavy hail, which smote their vines and broke their fruit trees and dried them up that they fell upon them.
31. Also every green herb became dry and perished, for a mingling [see Exodus, ch. 9, v. 24 ] fire descended amidst the hail, therefore the hail and the fire consumed all things.
32. Also men and beasts that were found in the open perished of the flames of fire and of the hail, and all the young lions [uncertain translation] were exhausted.
33. And the Lord sent and brought numerous locusts into Egpyt, the Chasel, Salom Chargol, and Chagole, locusts each of its kind [four species mentioned in scripture and each translated locusts ], which devoured all that the hail had left remaining.
34. Then the Egyptians rejoiced at the locusts, although they consumed the produce of the field, and they caught them in abundance and salted them for food.
35. And the Lord turned a mighty wind of the sea which took away all the locusts, even those that were salted, and thrust them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained within the boundaries of Egypt.
36. And God sent darkness upon Egypt, that the whole land of Egypt and Pathros became dark for three days, so that a man could not see his hand when he lifted it to his mouth.
37. At that time died many of the people of Israel who had rebelled against the Lord and who would not hearken to Moses and Aaron, and believed not in them that God had sent them.
38. Those, who would not hearken to the voice of Moseshad, had said, we will not go forth from Egypt lest we perish from hunger in a desolate wilderness.
39. And the Lord plagued them in the three days of darkness, and the Israelites buried them in those days without the Egyptians knowing of them or rejoicing over them.
40. And the darkness was very great in Egypt for three days, and any person who was standing when the darkness came, remained standing in his place, and he that was sitting, remained sitting, and he that was lying continued lying in the same state, and he that was walking remained sitting upon the ground in the same spot; and this thing happened to all the Egyptians, until the darkness had passed away.
41. And the days of darkness passed away, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron to the children of Israel, saying, celebrate your feast and prepare your passover, for behold I come in the midst of the night amongst all the Egyptians, and I will smite all their firstborn, from the firstborn of a man to the firstborn of a beast, and when I see your passover, I will pass over you.
42. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus did they in that night.
43. And it came to pass in the middle of the night, that the Lord went forth in the midst of Egypt, and smote all the firstborn of the Egyptians, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beast.
44. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a