CHAP. XI. and of darkness. The plague of locusts, again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, all the children of Israel had light in their Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are dwellings. they that shall go? 24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, 9 And Moses said, We will go with our and said, Go ye, serve the LORD: only young and with our old, with our sons and let your flocks and your herds be stayed: with our daughters, with our flocks and let your little ones also go with you. with our herds will we go: for we must hold a feast unto the LORD. 10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices, and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither. 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's presence. heart, and he would not let them go. 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee Stretch out thine hand over the land of from me, take heed to thyself, sce my face Egypt for the locusts, that they may come no more: for in that day thou seest my up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every face, thou shalt die. herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod 29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more. CHAP. XI. over the land of Egypt, and the LORD AND the LORD said unto Moses, Yet brought an east wind upon the land all that I bring one plague more upon day, and all that night: and when it was Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterward he morning, the east wind brought the locusts, will let you go hence: when he shall let 14 And the locusts went up over all the you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts altogether. of Egypt: very grievous were they; be- 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, fore them there were no such locusts as and let every man borrow of his neighbour, they, neither after them shall be such. and every woman of her neighbour, jewels 15 For they covered the face of the of silver, and jewels of gold. whole earth, so that the land was darkened; 3 And the LORD gave the people favour and they did eat every herb of the land, in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail the man Moses was very great in the land had left: and there remained not any green of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's serthing in the trees, or in the herbs of the vants, and in the sight of the people. field, through all the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only. 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 41 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 5 And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of beasts. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea: there remain- 7 But against any of the children of Ised not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. rael shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's the LORD doth put a difference between the heart, so that he would not let the children Egyptians and Israel. of Israel go. 8 And all these thy servants shall come 211 And the LORD said unto Moses, down unto me, and bow down themselves Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the that there may be darkness over the land people that follow thee; and after that I of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. will go out. And he went out from Phara22 And Moses stretched forth his hand oh in a great anger. toward heaven: and there was a thick 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Phadarkness in all the land of Egypt three raoh shall not hearken unto you; that my days: wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these The Passover instituted. EXODUS. Unleavened bread. wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD eateth leavened bread, from the first day hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut not let the children of Israel go out of his off from Israel. land. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you: no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you... 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. 4 And if the household be too little for 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth the lamb, let him and his neighbour next day of the month at even, ye shall eat ununto his house take it according to the leavened bread, until the one and twentieth number of the souls: every man according day of the month at even. to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a that which is leavened, even that soul shall male of the first year: ye shall take it out be cut off from the congregation of Israel, from the sheep or from the goats: whether he be a stranger, or born in the 6 And ye shall keep it up until the four-land. teenth day of the same month: and the 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 211 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you a lamb, according to your families, and kill the passover. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance house until the morning. thereof. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin: and none of you shall go out at the door of his 23 For the LORD will pass through to 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth until the morning: and that which remain- the blood upon the lintel, and on the two eth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand: and ye shall eat it in haste; it is the LORD's passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ses and Aaron, so did they ever. 28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Mo 29 And it came to pass, that at mid 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened night the LORD smote all the first-born in bread; even the first day ye shall put away the land of Egypt, from the first-born of leaven out of your houses: for whosoever Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the CHAP. XIII. and the Israelites driven out. The first-born of Egypt slain, first-born of the captive that was in the dun- out of the house: neither shall ye break a geon; and all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 311 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel: and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone: and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be ail dead men. 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. bone thereof. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD Commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51 And it came to pass the self-same day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. .1 CHAP. XIII. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say ing, 35 And the children of Israel did ac- 2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatcording to the word of Moses: and they soever openeth the womb among the chilborrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, dren of Israel, both of man and of beast: and jewels of gold, and raiment. SO it is mine. 36 And the LORD gave the people favour 31 And Moses said unto the people, in the sight of the Egyptians, that they Remember this day, in which ye came out lent unto them such things as they required: from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; and they spoiled the Egyptians. for by strength of hand the Lord brought leavened bread be eaten. 371 And the children of Israel journey-you out from this place: there shall no ed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, be sides children. 33 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 4 This day came ye out in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey; that thou shalt keep this service in this month. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened: because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for them- 6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened selves any victual. bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast 401 Now the sojourning of the children to the LORD. of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was four hun-7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven dred and thirty years. days; and there shall no leavened bread be 1 41 And it came to pass, at the end of the seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven four hundred and thirty years, even the self- seen with thee in all thy quarters. same day it came to pass, that all the hosts 8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations. 43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A foreigner, and an hired servant shall not eat thereof r 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes; that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year. 11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it theel, 12 That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix; and every The first-born sanctified to God. EXODUS. Pharaoh pursues the Israelites. firstling that cometh of a beast which thou raoh and of his servants was turned against hast, the males shall be the LORD'S. the people, and they said, Why have we 13 And every firstling of an ass thou done this, that we have let Israel go from shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the first-born of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. serving us? 1. 6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chari 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh ots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and capthee in time to come, saying, What is this? tains over every one of them. that thou shalt say unto him, By strength 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of of hand the LORD brought us out from Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued Egypt, from the house of bondage: after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both 9 But the Egyptians pursued after them the first-born of man, and the first-born of (all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all and his horsemen, and his army) and overthat openeth the matrix, being males; but took them encamping by the sea, beside all the first-born of my children I redeem. Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. 16 And it shall be for a token upon thine 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and for by strength of hand the Lord brought behold, the Egyptians marched after them; us forth out of Egypt. and they were sore afraid: and the children 17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh of Israel cried out unto the LORD. had let the people go, that God led them 11 And they said unto Moses, Because not through the way of the land of the Phi- there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou listines, although that was near, for God taken us away to die in the wilderness ? said, Lest peradventure the people repent Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to when they see war, and they return to carry us forth out of Egypt? Egypt: 12 Is not this the word that we did tell 18 But God led the people about, through thee in Egypt, saying, Let' us alone, that the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea: we may serve the Egyptians? For it had and the children of Israel went up harness- been better for us to serve the Egyptians, ed out of the land of Egypt. than that we should die in the wilderness. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph 13 And Moses said unto the people, with him: for he had straitly sworn the chil- Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvadren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit tion of the LORD, which he will shew to you; and ye shall carry up my bones away you to-day: for the Egyptians whom' ye hence with you. have seen to-day, ye shall see them again 20 And they took their journey from no more for ever. Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day ima pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light: to go by day and night. 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. CHAP. XIV. A 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 15 And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: : i. 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, upon his horsemen. the wilderness hath shut them in. 19 And the angel of God which went be 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that fore the camp of Israel, removed, and went he shall follow after them; and I will be behind them; and the pillar of the cloud honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his went from before their face, and stood behost; that the Egyptians may know that I hind them: am the LORD. And they did so. 20 And it came between the camp of the 5 And it was told the king of Egypt Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it that the people fled: and the heart of Pha-was a a cloud and darkness to them, but it it gave CHAP. XV. The Egyptians drowned. The song of Moses. light by night to these: so that the one came cast into the sea: his chosen captains also not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. are drowned in the Red sea. 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thine excellen cy thou hast overthrown them that rose up 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them, to the midst of the sea, eren all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. which consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning-watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw Egyptians, 25 And took off their chariot-wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing won 26 And the LORD said unto Moses, ders? Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, waters may come again upon the Egyp- the earth swallowed them. tians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his holy habitation. strength when the morning appeared; and 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid : the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the Palestina. sea. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be 28 And the waters returned, and covered amazed; the mighty men of Moab, tremthe chariots, and the horsemen, and all the bling shall take hold upon them; all the inhost of Pharaoh that came into the sea after habitants of Canaan shall melt away. them; there remained not so much as one 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; of them. by the greatness of thine arm they shall be 29 But the children of Israel walked as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and O LORD, till the people pass over, which the waters were a wall unto them on their thou hast purchased. right hand, and on their left. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day them in the mountain of thine inheritance, out of the hand of the Egyptians: and Is- in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made rael saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. for thee to dwell in; in the sanctuary, O 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them: but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed glorious 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. ly: the horse and his rider hath he thrown 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD into the sea. is his name. 221 So Moses brought Israel from the 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he Red sea, and they went out into the wilder |