Exodus Chapter 1
The Israelites' affliction in Egypt
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 All the descendants of Jacob were seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 The Israelites were fruitful and increased greatly; they grew abundantly and became very strong, so that the land was filled with them.
8 Now a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power over Egypt. He said to his people,
9 “ Look, the Israelites are more numerous and stronger than we are.
10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies and fight against us and leave the land.”
11 So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and grew, so that the Egyptians dreaded the Israelites.
13 The Egyptians made the Israelites serve harshly,
14 and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and brick and in all kinds of field work, and in all their service, which they made them perform with rigor.
15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, and said to them,
16 “ When you are helping the Hebrew women give birth and you see the baby, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but preserved the lives of the boys.
18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and spared the lives of the boys?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife arrives.”
20 So God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
21 Because the midwives feared God, he blessed their families.
22 Then Pharaoh gave orders to all his people: “Every son who is born you shall throw into the Nile, but every daughter you shall let live.”
Exodus Chapter 2
Birth of Moses
1 A man from the house of Levi went and married the daughter of Levi.
2 She conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
3 But when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. When she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her servant girl to get it.
6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and he was crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter replied, “Go.” So the young woman went and got the child’s mother.
9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her son and named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
Moses flees from Egypt
11 In those days Moses grew up and went out to his people and saw them at their forced labor. He noticed an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
12 Looking around and seeing no one, I have killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He said to the one who was mistreating the other, “Why are you beating your neighbor?”
14 The man replied, «Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you going to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?» Moses was afraid and thought, “Surely this has become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he sought to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian.
16 Now the priest of Midian was sitting by the well when seven daughters came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father’s flock.
17 But the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses stood up and defended them and watered their flock.
18 When they returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you come back so early today?”
19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds and drew water for us and watered the flock.”
20 And she said to her daughters, «Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him to eat.»
21 So Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses as a wife.
22 She bore him a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
23 After many days the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage went up to God.
24 God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25 God looked upon the Israelites and was pleased with them.
Éxodo Capítulo 3
The Calling of Moses
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses looked, and behold, though the bush was on fire, it was not consumed.
3 So Moses said, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush is not burned up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to see, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then he said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Then the Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
9 Now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
11 Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 God replied, “I will be with you; And this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”
16 Go, and gather together the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying: “I have truly visited you, and have seen what is being done to you in Egypt;
17 And I have said, “I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”
18 And they will listen to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; therefore, let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness, that we may offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.”
19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go except by a mighty hand.
20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will perform in it, and after that he will let you go.
21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you will not go empty-handed;
22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and of her lodger articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing, which you shall put on your sons and your daughters; and you shall plunder Egypt.
Exodus Chapter4
1 Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
2 The Lord said, “What is that in your hand?” He replied, “A staff.”
3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses fled from it.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So he reached out and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand.
5 “ This is so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6 The Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, like snow.
7 Then the Lord said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and And when he took her out of his womb again, behold, she was restored like his other flesh.
8 If they do not believe you or obey the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the second.
9 And if they still do not believe these two signs or listen to your voice, then take some water from the Nile and pour it on the ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.
10 Then Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
13 “Pardon your servant, Lord,” he said. Send, I pray, by the one you should send.
14 Then the Lord was angry with Moses and said, “I know your brother Aaron the Levite, and that he speaks well. And behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.
16 He shall speak for you to the people; he shall be your spokesman, and you shall be to him as God.
17 And you shall take this staff in your hand, with which you shall perform the signs.”
Moses returns to Egypt
18 So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said, “I will go back to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 The Lord also said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who were trying to kill you are dead.”
20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
23 I have told you to let my son go, so that he may serve me, but you refused to let him go. Now I am going to kill your firstborn son.’”
24 On the way, at an inn, the Lord met him and sought to kill him.
25 But Zipporah took a sharp flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and laid it at his feet, saying, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”
26 So he let him go at once. She said, “A bridegroom of blood, because of the circumcision.”
27 Then the Lord said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and found him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
28 Then Moses told Aaron all the words the Lord had sent him and all the signs he had given him.
29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the Israelites.
30 Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses and performed the signs in the sight of the people.
31 The people believed; when they heard that the Lord had visited the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped him.
Exodus Chapter 5
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh
1 Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”
2 Pharaoh replied, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he strike us with plague or with the sword.”
4 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Get back to your tasks!”
5 Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you are taking them away from their work.”
6 That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters and foremen of the people, saying,
7 “ You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as you have done until now. Let them go and gather their own straw.
8 You shall impose on them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it, for they are idle, and that is why they cry out, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.’
9 Let their work be increased, so that they may be occupied with it and not listen to false words.”
10 So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I will not give you straw.’
11 Go and gather straw wherever you can find it, but your quota shall not be reduced.”
12 So the people dispersed throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters urged them on, saying, “Finish your work, your daily quota on its day, just as when you were given straw.”
14 And they beat the Israelite taskmasters whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, saying, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks, either yesterday or today, as before?”
15 Then the Israelite taskmasters came to Pharaoh and complained to him, saying, “Why do you treat your servants like this?
16 No straw is given to your servants, yet you tell us, ‘Make bricks!’ And look, your servants are beaten, and your people are the ones at fault.”
17 He answered, “You are idle, very idle, and that is why you say, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.’
18 Go now and work. No straw will be given to you, yet you must deliver the same quota of bricks.”
19 Then the taskmasters of the Israelites were distressed when they were told, “Your daily quota of bricks shall not be reduced.”
20 When they met Moses and Aaron, who were standing before them as they left Pharaoh’s presence,
21 they said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us detestable in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, putting the sword in their hands to kill us.”
Jehovah commissions Moses and Aaron
22 Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Lord, why have you afflicted this people? Why did you send me?
23 For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has afflicted this people, and you have not delivered your people.”
Exodus Chapter 6
1 The Lord answered Moses, «Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. With a mighty hand he will let them go, and with a mighty hand he will drive them out of his land.»
2 God also spoke to Moses and said to him, «I am the Lord.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were sojourners and in which they lived.
5 And I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7 I will bring you into the land I swore give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you as your inheritance. I am the Lord.
9 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.
10 Then the Lord said to Moses,
11 “Go to Pharaoh king of Egypt and tell him to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
12 But Moses said to the Lord, «The Israelites will not listen to me. How then will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am slow of speech?»
13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a command for the Israelites and for Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
14 These are the heads of their ancestral houses: The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; These are the families of Reuben.
15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon.
16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their clans: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their clans.
18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their clans.
20Amram took his aunt Jochebed as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
23 Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24 The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the families of the Korahites.
25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the Levites’ families.
26 These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.”
27 These are the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. They were Moses and Aaron.
28 When the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt,
29 the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.
30 And Moses answered before the Lord, “Behold, I am slow of speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”
Exodus Chapter 7
1 The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
2 You shall speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh, so that he will let the Israelites go out of his land.
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt by mighty acts of judgment.
5 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
6 Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded them.
7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Aaron 's rod
8 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
9 “ If Pharaoh answers you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’”
10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt did the same by their enchantments.
12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
13 But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
The plague of blood
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, and he refuses to let the people go.
15 Go to Pharaoh early in the morning, as he is going out to the Nile. Stand on the riverbank in front of him, taking in your hand the staff that became a snake,
16 and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, so that they may serve me in the wilderness,” but you have refused to listen until now.’
17 This is what the Lord says: ‘By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff in my hand I will strike the water in the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe its water.’”
19 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over its rivers, over its streams, over its ponds, and over all its reservoirs of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in the wooden vessels and in the stone vessels.’”
20 So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the water in the Nile in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, and all the water in the Nile turned to blood.
21 The fish in the Nile also died, and the river became so foul that the Egyptians could not drink it. Blood was throughout the land of Egypt.
22 The magicians of Egypt also worked their magic spells, but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
23 Pharaoh turned back and went to his palace and paid no attention to this either.
24 All the people of Egypt dug wells around the Nile to drink, because they could not drink the water from the Nile.
25 Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.
Exodus Chapter 8
The plague of frogs
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2 But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
3 The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up into your palace, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your officials, among your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.
4 The frogs will come up on you, on your people, and on all your officials.’”
5 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, the streams, and the ponds, so that I may bring up frogs on the land of Egypt.’”
6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
7 The magicians did the same by their enchantments and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”
9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “Please tell me when I should pray for you, your officials, and your people, so that the frogs may be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile.”
10 He said, “Tomorrow.” Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
11 The frogs will leave you, your houses, your officials, and your people, and will remain only in the Nile.”
12 So Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh’s presence. And Moses cried out to the Lord concerning the frogs that he had sent upon Pharaoh.
13 The Lord did as Moses had said, and the frogs died in the houses, in the farmyards, and in the fields.
14 They gathered them into heaps, and the land stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that he had found relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
The plague of lice
16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground, so that it will become lice throughout the land of Egypt.’”
17 And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the ground, and it became lice on both man and beast; all the dust of the ground became lice throughout the land of Egypt.
18 The magicians also tried to produce lice by their enchantments, but they could not. So there were lice on both man and beast.
19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
The plague of flies
20 The Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, as he is going out to the Nile. Say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, that they may worship me.
21 But if you do not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your officials and on your people and on your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be filled with swarms of flies, and also the land where they are.
22 On that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies will be in it, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land.
23 And I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will be tomorrow.’”
24 And the Lord did so, and swarms of flies came on the house of Pharaoh and on the houses of his officials and on all the land of Egypt; and the land was corrupted by them.
25 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “Go, offer sacrifices to your God in the land.”
26 But Moses said, “It is not right for us to do so, for we would be offering to the Lord our God what the Egyptians detest. If we were to offer sacrifices to the Egyptians what they detest in front of them, would they not stone us?
27 Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness and offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, as he will tell us.”
28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the wilderness, provided you do not go very far. Pray for me.”
29 And Moses said, “As soon as I leave your presence, I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people tomorrow, provided that Pharaoh does not again fail to let the people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
30 Then Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and prayed to the Lord.
31 The Lord did as Moses asked and removed all the flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one remained.
32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time and did not let the people go.
Exodus Chapter 9
The plague in livestock
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
2 If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,
3 the hand of the Lord will strike your livestock in the field—the horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and sheep—with a very severe plague.
4 The Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that none of the Israelites’ livestock will die.’”
5 The Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”
6 The next day the Lord did this, and all the livestock of Egypt died, but not one of the Israelites’ livestock died.
7 So Pharaoh sent, and not one of the Israelites’ livestock had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.
The plague of ulcers
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and Moses shall scatter it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will cause boils and sores to break out on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.”
10 So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered it toward the sky. Boils broke out on people and animals.
11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
12 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said to Moses.
The hail
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may serve me.
14 For this time I will send all my plagues against you, your officials, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand and strike you and your people with plagues, and you will be wiped off the face of the earth.
16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, so that I might show my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
17 Are you still being arrogant against my people, refusing to let them go?
18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will send down hailstones of such magnitude as have never been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now
. field; For every man or animal found in the field that is not brought home, the hail will fall on him and he will die.
20 Of Pharaoh’s servants, those who feared the word of the Lord brought their servants and livestock home,
21 but those who did not take the word of the Lord to heart left their servants and livestock in the field.
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall on all the land of Egypt—on people, animals, and everything growing in the fields throughout Egypt.”
23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord caused thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth; the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24 There was hail, and lightning mingled with the hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the fields, both people and animals; it crushed all the vegetation in the fields and broke off every tree in the land.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail.
27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28 Pray to the Lord that the thunderings and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and you will not be delayed any longer.”
29 Moses answered, “As soon as I leave the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord, and the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.
30 But I know that neither you nor your servants will yet fear the Lord God.”
31 So the flax and the barley were destroyed, for the barley was in the head and the flax in the stalk.
32 But the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed, for they were late in maturing.
33 When Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and went outside the city, he stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and the rain no longer fell on the earth.
34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he persisted in sinning, and he and his servants hardened their hearts.
35 But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had said through Moses.
Éxodo Capítulo 10
The plague of locusts
1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, so that I may perform these signs of mine among them,
2 and so that you may tell your children and grandchildren what I did in Egypt and the signs I performed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.”
3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
4 But if you still refuse to let them go, tomorrow I will bring locusts upon your land.
5 They will cover the face of the land so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what you have left after the hail and every tree that bears fruit in the fields.’”
6 He will fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, such as neither your ancestors nor your grandparents have seen from the day they were on the earth until this day. Then he turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.
7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”
8 So Moses and Aaron were summoned again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. But who are the ones who are to go?”
9 Moses answered, “We must go with our little ones and our old men, our sons and our daughters, our flocks and our herds, for this is our festival to the Lord.”
10 He said to them, “The Lord be with you! But how can I let you and your little ones go? Look, evil is before you!”
11 Not so; go now, you men, and serve the Lord, for this is what you asked for. So they drove them out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts, so that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat up everything the hail left.”
13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when morning came, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the land of Egypt in such great numbers as had never been before, nor ever will be again.
15It covered the face of the whole land and darkened the earth; it ate up all the vegetation in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or in the fields throughout all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
17 Now I beg you, forgive my sin just this once, and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”
18 So Moses went out from Pharaoh’s presence and prayed to the Lord.
19 Then the Lord brought a very strong west wind, and swept away the locusts and hurled them into the Red Sea; not a single locust remained in all the land of Egypt.
20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.
The plague of darkness
21 The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.
23 No one could see anyone else, and no one moved about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Only your flocks and herds must remain with you, and your little ones may go with you.”
25 Moses replied, “You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings to sacrifice to the Lord our God.
26 Our livestock must also go with us; not a hoof should be left behind, for we must take some of them to worship the Lord our God, but we do not know with what we must worship the Lord until we get there.”
27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he refused to let them go.
28 Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful not to see my face again, for if you see my face again, you will die.”
29 Moses replied, “You have spoken well; I will not see your face again.”
Exodus Chapter 11
The death of the firstborn
1 The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here and will surely drive you out completely.
2 Now tell the people, and let each man ask his neighbor, and each woman her neighbor, for articles of silver and gold.”
3 The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moses was also highly regarded in the land of Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.
4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,
5 and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the female slave who is at the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been before, nor ever will be again.”
7 But against all the children of Israel, from man to beast, not a dog shall move its tongue, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and the Israelites.
8 And all these your servants will come down to me and bow down before me and say, ‘Go, you and all the people who are under you; and after that I will go out.’ So he went out from Pharaoh’s presence in a great rage.
9 And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.’
10 And Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord had hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel leave his country.
Exodus Chapter 12
Easter
1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb for his family, according to their father’s house, a lamb for each household.
4 But if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take one according to the number of persons; you You shall make your count for the lamb according to what each person will eat. 5 Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year ; meat roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 You shall eat nothing of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire—its head, its feet, and its entrails. 10 You shall leave nothing of it until morning; remains until morning you shall burn whatever with fire. 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in disgust; it is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night and strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 This day shall be a memorial for you, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it as a perpetual statute. 15 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day remove all leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day through the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a holy convocation, and on the seventh day hold another holy convocation. Do not work on these days, except prepare the food everyone needs. 17 Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Throughout your generations, observe this ordinance as a perpetual statute. 18In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening until the twenty-first day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread.
19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread, whether a foreigner or a native of the land, shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
20 You shall eat nothing left; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, «Go and select lambs for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and put some of the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning,
23 for the Lord will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; And when the Lord sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, he will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you down.
24 You shall observe this as a statute for yourselves and your children forever.
25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as he promised, you shall observe this rite.
27 you shall answer, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 The Israelites went and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Death of the firstborn
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up that night, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
31 At night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “Go out from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the Lord, as you have said.
32 Take your flocks and herds also, as you have said, and go; and bless me also.”
33 The Egyptians urged the people on, hastening to send them out of the land, for they said, “We are all dead!”
34 The people carried their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs wrapped in their sheets on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites did as Moses had commanded, asking the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and clothing.
36 The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them everything they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
The Israelites leave Egypt
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
38 A great multitude of all kinds of people also went up with them, along with flocks and a very large number of livestock.
39 They baked unleavened bread from the dough they had brought out of Egypt, for it was unleavened, because when the Egyptians drove them out, they had not had time to prepare food for themselves.
40 The time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41 At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the Lord’s army left Egypt.
42 It is a night to be observed by the Lord, because on it he brought them out of Egypt. Throughout their generations, all the Israelites are to observe this night to the Lord.
43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No outsider may eat of it.”
44 But every human being bought with money may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
45 No foreigner or hired servant may eat of it.
46 It must be eaten in one house, and you must not carry any of the meat outside the house, nor break any of its bones.
47 The whole congregation of Israel must do this.
48 But if a foreigner resides among you and wishes to keep the Passover to the Lord, every male among him must be circumcised, and then he may keep it, and he will be like one of your own people; but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
49 The same law applies to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.
50 All the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 On that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
Exodus Chapter 13
Consecration of the firstborn
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. Every firstborn male among the Israelites, whether human or animal, belongs to me.”
3 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, for the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Therefore, you shall eat no leavened bread.
4 You are leaving today in the month of Abib.
5 When the Lord has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall observe this festival in this month.
6 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the Lord.
7 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and nothing leavened or leavened shall be seen among you in all your territory.”
8 And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, “This is done because of what the Lord did for me when he brought me out of Egypt.”
9 It shall be as a sign on your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.
10 Therefore you shall keep this rite at its appointed time year by year.
11 When the Lord has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your ancestors, and has given it to you,
12 you shall dedicate to the Lord every firstborn male and every firstborn of your livestock; the males shall belong to the Lord.
13 But every firstborn male of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. You shall also redeem the firstborn of your sons.
14 And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What does this mean?” you shall say to him, “With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
15 But when Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let us go, the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord every firstborn male, and I redeem the firstborn of my sons.”
16 It shall be as a sign on your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, for with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.
The pillar of cloud and fire
17 After Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the Philistine land, though that was near. God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”
18 So God led the people around by way of the Desert of the Red Sea. And the Israelites went up out of Egypt armed.
19 Moses also took with him the bones of Joseph, who had made the Israelites swear an oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry my bones up from here with you.”
20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.
21 The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night.
22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place before the people.
Exodus Chapter 14
The Israelites cross the Red
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “ Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal-zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are trapped in the land; the wilderness has closed them in.
’ 4 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them, and I will gain glory over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
5 When it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials were angry with the people and said, “Why have we done this, letting Israel go from serving us?”
6 So he prepared his chariot and took his people with him.
7 He took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt with their commanders.
8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites. The Israelites had gone out with a mighty hand.
9 The Egyptians pursued them—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his entire army—and overtook them encamped by the sea at Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
10 When Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.
11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us out to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
12 Didn’t we tell you this in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
13 Then Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
17 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so they will go in front of them, and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and horsemen.
18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”
19And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud that went before them moved and stood behind them,
20 coming between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. It was a cloud and darkness to the Egyptians, but it gave light to Israel by night, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
21 Then 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.
22 Then the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, with the waters as a wall to their right and to their left.
23 The Egyptians pursued them and went in after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen.
24 At dawn the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw the Egyptian army into confusion.
25 He jammed the wheels off their chariots, so that the Egyptians threw them into great confusion. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians, their chariots, and their horsemen.”
27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its full strength. The Egyptians fled toward the sea, and the Lord swept them into the midst of the sea.
28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that had gone into the sea after them; not one of them remained.
29 But the children of Israel went through the midst of the sea on dry ground, with the waters as a wall to their right hand and to their left.
30 So the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the Lord performed against the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and Moses his servant.
Exodus Chapter 15
Song of Moses and Mary
1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a warrior—the Lord is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea; the best of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
5 The deep waters have covered them; they have gone down to the depths like a stone.
6 Your right hand, Lord, is magnificent in power; your right hand, Lord, has shattered the enemy.
7 In the greatness of your power you have overthrown your adversaries. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like chaff.
8 At the blast of your breath the waters piled up; The currents gathered together like a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be satiated with them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.”
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them up.
13 In your mercy you led the people you redeemed; you guided them in your strength to your holy dwelling.
14 The nations will hear and tremble; sorrow will seize the land of the Philistines.
15 Then the rulers of Edom will be dismayed; Trembling will seize the mighty men of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away.
16 May trembling and dread fall upon them; may they be as still as a stone before the greatness of your arm, until your people pass by, O Lord, until this people whom you have redeemed pass by.
17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, in the place of your dwelling, which you have prepared, O Lord, in the sanctuary that your hands, O Lord, have established.
18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.
19 For Pharaoh went into the sea with his chariots and his horsemen, and the Lord brought the waters of the sea back upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.
20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
21And Miriam answered them: Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; both horse and rider he has hurled into the sea. The bitter water of Miriam
The bitter water of Mara
22 So Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. That is why the place was called Marah.
24 The people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
25 So Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made a decree and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not put any of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”
27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.
Exodus Chapter 16
God gives the manna
1 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.
2 In the desert the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt, when we sat around pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted! Instead, you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
5 On the sixth day they are to prepare a plot of land and store up twice as much as they gather each day.”
6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of Egypt,
7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?”
8 Moses also said, “The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, because the Lord has heard your grumbling against him. For who are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the Lord.”
9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
10 As Aaron spoke to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the wilderness, and there before them was the glory of the Lord in the cloud.
11 The Lord said to Moses,
12 “ I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites; Speak to them, saying, “At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread, and you will know that I am the Lord your God.”
13 That evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was dew all around the camp.
14 When the dew was gone, there was fine, round flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, “What is it?” for they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.
16 This is what the Lord has commanded: “Each of you is to gather as much as you need—an omer per person, according to the number of people in your tents.”
17And the children of Israel did so; some gathered more, some less.
18 And they measured it by the omer, and he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no lack; each man gathered according to what he needed to eat.
19 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.”
20 But they did not obey Moses, but some left it until morning, and it bred worms, and it stank; and Moses was angry with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, each man according to what he needed to eat; and as soon as the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each man; and all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a holy Sabbath, a Sabbath consecrated to the Lord. Bake today what you will bake, and boil today what you will boil; and all that remains over, lay up for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
24 So they laid it up until morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not become wormy, nor did it stink.
25 Then Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find any in the field.
26 For six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, a Sabbath, it will not be found.”
27 So it happened on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.
28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my laws?
29 Remember that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Each of you must remain in your place; no one is to go out on the seventh day.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The people of Israel called its name Manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.
32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it and keep it for your descendants, so that they may see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”
33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it and set it before the Lord to be kept for your descendants.”
34 Aaron placed it before the Testimony to keep it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a settled land; they ate manna until they reached the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.
Exodus Chapter 17
Water from the rock
1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, as the Lord commanded, and they camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 And the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”
3 So the people were thirsty there, and they grumbled against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
4 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; And you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of that place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
War with Amalek
8 Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses had instructed and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, one on the other, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.
13 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua, for I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
15 So Moses built an altar and called its name The Lord Is My God;
16 and he said, “Because the Lord has sworn to uphold the throne of the Lord, the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Jethro visits Moses
1 Now Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2 So Jethro Moses’ father-in-law took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
3 and her two sons. The name of one was Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “The God of my father helped me and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
5 So Jethro Moses’ father-in-law, with his wife and sons, came to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped by the mountain of God.
6 He said to Moses, “I, Jethro, your father-in-law, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They asked each other how they were and then went into the tent.
8 Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, and all the hardship they had endured on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.
9 Jethro rejoiced over all the good the Lord had done for Israel in delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians.
10 Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the very thing where they acted arrogantly, he prevailed against them.”
12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought burnt offerings and sacrifices to God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Jethro visits Moses
13 The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood before him from morning till evening.
14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand before you from morning till evening?”
15 Moses answered his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
16 When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I judge between them and make known God’s statutes and laws.”
17 Then Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.”
18 You will utterly wear yourself out, both you and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.
19 Now listen to my voice; I will give you advice, and God will be with you. Represent the people before God, and bring their cases to him.
20 Teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and what they must do.
21 Moreover, choose capable men from all the people, men who fear God, men of integrity, who hate covetousness; and appoint them as rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
22 They shall judge the people at all times; they shall bring every major case to you, but they shall decide every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your burden, and they will share it with you.
23 If you do this, and God so commands you, you will be able to endure, and all these people will also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said.
25 Moses chose capable men from all Israel and appointed them as rulers over the people, as rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
26 And they judged the people at all times; they brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they judged every minor case themselves.
27 Then Moses dismissed his father-in-law, and he went to his own country.
Exodo Capítulo 19
Israel in Sinai
1 In the third month after the Israelites had left Egypt, on the very day they arrived at the Desert of Sinai.
2 They had set out from Rephidim and reached the Desert of Sinai, and they camped there in the wilderness, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the Israelites:
4 ‘ You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
5 Now if you will indeed obey me and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
7 So Moses went and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.
9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear me speaking with you and may forever put their trust in you.” So Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.
10 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
12 You shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
13 No hand shall touch him, for he shall be stoned or shot with arrows; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall go up to the mountain.’”
14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
15 He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not have sexual relations with a woman.”
16 On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings, a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
18 Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up like the smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
19 The sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice of thunder.
20 Then the Lord descended on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21 The Lord said to Moses, “Go down and command the people not to break through to gaze at the Lord, or many of them will perish.
22 Also, let the priests who approach the Lord consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.”
23 Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for you yourself commanded us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’”
24 The Lord said to him, “Go down, and you and Aaron shall go up; but the priests and the people shall not break through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”
25 So Moses went down and told the people.
Exodo Capítulo 20
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You shall have no other gods before me.
4 You shall not make for yourself an image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Do no work on it—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
13 You shall not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
The terror of the people
18 All the people saw the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.
19 And they said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
20 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid; God has come to test you, so that the fear of him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
21 The people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
23 Do not make gods of silver to be with me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.
24 Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
25 If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with hewn stones, for if you use a tool on it, you will defile it.
26 Do not go up to my altar by steps, or your nakedness will be exposed on it.’”