¹ L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Va vers Pharaon, et tu lui diras: Ainsi parle L'Eternel: Laisse aller mon peuple, afin qu'il me serve.

² Si tu refuses de le laisser aller, je vais frapper par des grenouilles toute l'étendue de ton pays.

³ Le fleuve fourmillera de grenouilles; elles monteront, et elles entreront dans ta maison, dans ta chambre à coucher et dans ton lit, dans la maison de tes serviteurs et dans celles de ton peuple, dans tes fours et dans tes pétrins.

⁴ Les grenouilles monteront sur toi, sur ton peuple, et sur tous tes serviteurs.

⁵ L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Dis à Aaron: Etends ta main avec ta verge sur les rivières, sur les ruisseaux et sur les étangs, et fais monter les grenouilles sur le pays d'Egypte.

⁶ Aaron étendit sa main sur les eaux de l'Egypte; et les grenouilles montèrent et couvrirent le pays d'Egypte.

⁷ Mais les magiciens en firent autant par leurs enchantements. Ils firent monter les grenouilles sur le pays d'Egypte.

⁸ Pharaon appela Moïse et Aaron, et dit: Priez l'Eternel, afin qu'il éloigne les grenouilles de moi et de mon peuple; et je laisserai aller le peuple, pour qu'il offre des sacrifices à l'Eternel.

⁹ Moïse dit à Pharaon: Glorifie-toi sur moi! Pour quand prierai-je l'Eternel en ta faveur, en faveur de tes serviteurs et de ton peuple, afin qu'il retire les grenouilles loin de toi et de tes maisons? Il n'en restera que dans le fleuve.

¹⁰ Il répondit: Pour demain. Et Moïse dit: Il en sera ainsi, afin que tu saches que nul n'est semblable à l'Eternel, notre Dieu.

¹¹ Les grenouilles s'éloigneront de toi et de tes maisons, de tes serviteurs et de ton peuple; il n'en restera que dans le fleuve.

¹² Moïse et Aaron sortirent de chez Pharaon. Et Moïse cria à l'Eternel au sujet des grenouilles dont il avait frappé Pharaon.

¹³ L'Eternel fit ce que demandait Moïse; et les grenouilles périrent dans les maisons, dans les cours et dans les champs.

¹⁴ On les entassa par monceaux, et le pays fut infecté.

¹⁵ Pharaon, voyant qu'il y avait du relâche, endurcit son coeur, et il n'écouta point Moïse et Aaron, selon ce que l'Eternel avait dit.

¹⁶ L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Dis à Aaron: Etends ta verge, et frappe la poussière de la terre. Elle se changera en poux, dans tout le pays d'Egypte.

¹⁷ Ils firent ainsi. Aaron étendit sa main, avec sa verge, et il frappa la poussière de la terre; et elle fut changée en poux sur les hommes et sur les animaux. Toute la poussière de la terre fut changée en poux, dans tout le pays d'Egypte.

¹⁸ Les magiciens employèrent leurs enchantements pour produire les poux; mais ils ne purent pas. Les poux étaient sur les hommes et sur les animaux.

¹⁹ Et les magiciens dirent à Pharaon: C'est le doigt de Dieu! Le coeur de Pharaon s'endurcit, et il n'écouta point Moïse et Aaron, selon ce que l'Eternel avait dit.

²⁰ L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Lève-toi de bon matin, et présente-toi devant Pharaon; il sortira pour aller près de l'eau. Tu lui diras: Ainsi parle L'Eternel: Laisse aller mon peuple, afin qu'il me serve.

²¹ Si tu ne laisses pas aller mon peuple, je vais envoyer les mouches venimeuses contre toi, contre tes serviteurs, contre ton peuple et contre tes maisons; les maisons des Egyptiens seront remplies de mouches, et le sol en sera couvert.

²² Mais, en ce jour-là, je distinguerai le pays de Gosen où habite mon peuple, et là il n'y aura point de mouches, afin que tu saches que moi, l'Eternel, je suis au milieu de ce pays.

²³ J'établirai une distinction entre mon peuple et ton peuple. Ce signe sera pour demain.

²⁴ L'Eternel fit ainsi. Il vint une quantité de mouches venimeuses dans la maison de Pharaon et de ses serviteurs, et tout le pays d'Egypte fut dévasté par les mouches.

²⁵ Pharaon appela Moïse et Aaron et dit: Allez, offrez des sacrifices à votre Dieu dans le pays.

²⁶ Moïse répondit: Il n'est point convenable de faire ainsi; car nous offririons à l'Eternel, notre Dieu, des sacrifices qui sont en abomination aux Egyptiens. Et si nous offrons, sous leurs yeux, des sacrifices qui sont en abomination aux Egyptiens, ne nous lapideront-ils pas?

²⁷ Nous ferons trois journées de marche dans le désert, et Nous offrirons des sacrifices à l'Eternel, notre Dieu, selon ce qu'il Nous dira.

²⁸ Pharaon dit: Je vous laisserai aller, pour offrir à l'Eternel, votre Dieu, des sacrifices dans le désert: seulement, vous ne vous éloignerez pas, en y allant. Priez pour moi.

²⁹ Moïse répondit: Je vais sortir de chez toi, et je prierai l'Eternel. Demain, les mouches s'éloigneront de Pharaon, de ses serviteurs et de son peuple. Mais, que Pharaon ne trompe plus, en refusant de laisser aller le peuple, pour offrir des sacrifices à l'Eternel.

³⁰ Moïse sortit de chez Pharaon, et il pria l'Eternel.

³¹ L'Eternel fit ce que demandait Moïse; et les mouches s'éloignèrent de Pharaon, de ses serviteurs et de son peuple. Il n'en resta pas une.

³² Mais Pharaon, cette fois encore, endurcit son coeur, et il ne laissa point aller le peuple.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

² "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

⁴ and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

⁶ and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

⁷ They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

⁸ They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

⁹ Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

¹⁰ You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹ This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

¹³ The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

¹⁵ "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

¹⁶ In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

¹⁷ You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

¹⁸ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

¹⁹ Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

²¹ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

²² You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

²³ For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

²⁴ You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

²⁵ It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

²⁶ It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

²⁷ that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

²⁸ The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

²⁹ It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

³⁰ 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.

³¹ He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

³² Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

³³ The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

³⁴ The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

³⁵ The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

³⁶ Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

³⁷ The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

³⁸ A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

³⁹ They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

⁴⁰ Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

⁴¹ It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

⁴² It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴³ Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

⁴⁴ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

⁴⁵ A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

⁴⁷ All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

⁴⁸ When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

⁴⁹ One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

⁵⁰ All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

⁵¹ It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.