¹ 耶和華吩咐摩西說：你進去見法老，對他說：耶和華─希伯來人的神這樣說：容我的百姓去，好事奉我。

² 你若不肯容他們去，仍舊強留他們，

³ 耶和華的手加在你田間的牲畜上，就是在馬、驢、駱駝、牛群、羊群上，必有重重的瘟疫。

⁴ 耶和華要分別以色列的牲畜和埃及的牲畜，凡屬以色列人的，一樣都不死。

⁵ 耶和華就定了時候，說：明天耶和華必在此地行這事。

⁶ 第二天，耶和華就行這事。埃及的牲畜幾乎都死了，只是以色列人的牲畜，一個都沒有死。

⁷ 法老打發人去看，誰知以色列人的牲畜連一個都沒有死。法老的心卻是固執，不容百姓去。

⁸ 耶和華吩咐摩西、亞倫說：你們取幾捧爐灰，摩西要在法老面前向天揚起來。

⁹ 這灰要在埃及全地變作塵土，在人身上和牲畜身上成了起泡的瘡。

¹⁰ 摩西、亞倫取了爐灰，站在法老面前。摩西向天揚起來，就在人身上和牲畜身上成了起泡的瘡。

¹¹ 行法術的在摩西面前站立不住，因為在他們身上和一切埃及人身上都有這瘡。

¹² 耶和華使法老的心剛硬，不聽他們，正如耶和華對摩西所說的。

¹³ 耶和華對摩西說：你清早起來，站在法老面前，對他說：耶和華─希伯來人的神這樣說：容我的百姓去，好事奉我。

¹⁴ 因為這一次我要叫一切的災殃臨到你和你臣僕並你百姓的身上，叫你知道在普天下沒有像我的。

¹⁵ 我若伸手用瘟疫攻擊你和你的百姓，你早就從地上除滅了。

¹⁶ 其實，我叫你存立，是特要向你顯我的大能，並要使我的名傳遍天下。

¹⁷ 你還向我的百姓自高，不容他們去麼？

¹⁸ 到明天約在這時候，我必叫重大的冰雹降下，自從埃及開國以來，沒有這樣的冰雹。

¹⁹ 現在你要打發人把你的牲畜和你田間一切所有的催進來；凡在田間不收回家的，無論是人是牲畜，冰雹必降在他們身上，他們就必死。

²⁰ 法老的臣僕中，懼怕耶和華這話的，便叫他的奴僕和牲畜跑進家來。

²¹ 但那不把耶和華這話放在心上的，就將他的奴僕和牲畜留在田裡。

²² 耶和華對摩西說：你向天伸杖，使埃及遍地的人身上和牲畜身上，並田間各樣菜蔬上，都有冰雹。

²³ 摩西向天伸杖，耶和華就打雷下雹，有火閃到地上；耶和華下雹在埃及地上。

²⁴ 那時，雹與火攙雜，甚是利害，自從埃及成國以來，遍地沒有這樣的。

²⁵ 在埃及遍地，雹擊打了田間所有的人和牲畜，並一切的菜蔬，又打壞田間一切的樹木。

²⁶ 惟獨以色列人所住的歌珊地沒有冰雹。

²⁷ 法老打發人召摩西、亞倫來，對他們說：這一次我犯了罪了。耶和華是公義的；我和我的百姓是邪惡的。

²⁸ 這雷轟和冰雹已經夠了。請你們求耶和華，我就容你們去，不再留住你們。

²⁹ 摩西對他說：我一出城，就要向耶和華舉手禱告；雷必止住，也不再有冰雹，叫你知道全地都是屬耶和華的。

³⁰ 至於你和你的臣僕，我知道你們還是不懼怕耶和華神。

³¹ 那時，麻和大麥被雹擊打；因為大麥已經吐穗，麻也開了花。

³² 只是小麥和粗麥沒有被擊打，因為還沒有長成。）

³³ 摩西離了法老出城，向耶和華舉手禱告；雷和雹就止住，雨也不再澆在地上了。

³⁴ 法老見雨和雹與雷止住，就越發犯罪；他和他的臣僕都硬著心。

³⁵ 法老的心剛硬，不容以色列人去，正如耶和華藉著摩西所說的。

¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,

² and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

³ Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

⁴ Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

⁵ and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

⁶ Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

⁷ Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

⁸ Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will Go?"

⁹ Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

¹⁰ He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

¹¹ Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

¹² Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."

¹³ Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

¹⁴ The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

¹⁵ For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

¹⁷ Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

¹⁸ He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

¹⁹ Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

²⁰ But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

²¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

²² Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

²³ They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

²⁴ Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also Go with you."

²⁵ Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

²⁶ Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

²⁷ But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

²⁸ Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

²⁹ Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."