¹ And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people Go to sacrifice to me.

² But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.

³ And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs: which shall come up, and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and in the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats;

⁴ And the frogs shall come in to thee and to thy people, and to all thy servants.

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.

⁶ And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

⁷ And the magicians also by their enchantments did in like manner, and the brought forth frogs upon all the land of Egypt

⁸ But Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

⁹ And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people: and may remain only in the river.

¹⁰ And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to thy word; that thou mayst know that there is none like to the Lord our God.

¹¹ And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the river.

¹² And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to the Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the frogs.

¹³ And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:

¹⁴ And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted.

¹⁵ And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth: and may there be sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod: and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ And the magicians with their enchantments practiced in like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.

¹⁹ And the magicians said to Pharao This is the finger of God. And Pharao heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.

²⁰ The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao: for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith The Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

²¹ But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses all kind of flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.

²² And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is, wonderful in that lay, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

²³ And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

²⁴ And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into he houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.

²⁵ And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, and sacrifice to your God in this land.

²⁶ And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone us.

²⁷ We will go three days' journey into the wilderness: and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

²⁸ And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness: but go no farther: pray for me.

²⁹ And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

³⁰ So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.

³¹ And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left so much as one.

³² And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time would he let the people go.

¹ Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.

² Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.

³ And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent: so that Moses fled from it.

⁴ And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the tail. He Put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.

⁵ That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.

⁶ And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had Put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.

⁷ And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He Put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.

⁸ If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.

⁹ But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river shall be turned into blood.

¹⁰ Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.

¹¹ The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

¹² Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

¹³ But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send.

¹⁴ The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee shall be glad at heart.

¹⁵ Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do.

¹⁶ He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.

¹⁷ And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.

¹⁸ Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: go in peace.

¹⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.

²⁰ Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.

²¹ And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.

²² And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

²³ I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.

²⁴ And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.

²⁵ Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

²⁶ And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

²⁷ And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.

²⁸ And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.

²⁹ And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.

³⁰ And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people,

³¹ And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel: and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.