Tribal Plagues

2 Exodus 7:10-13
¹⁰So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and they did as Yahvah had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
¹¹Then Pharaoh called the wise men and the magicians; now the magicians of Egypt, they also did the same with their magic.
¹²For they cast down every man his staff and they became serpents; but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
¹³However Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and would not let them go, as Yahvah had said.

2 Exodus 7:14-24
¹⁴Then Yahvah said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.
¹⁵Go to Pharaoh in the morning; look, he goes out to his daily duty; and you stand toward him by the river's brink and wait; and take in your hand the staff which was turned into a serpent.
¹⁶And you will say to him, Yahvah God of the Hebrews has sent me to you saying, Let my people go that they may serve me in the wilderness; and look, until now you have not listened.
¹⁷Yahvah says, By this you will know that I am Yahvah: look, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike on the waters of the river, and they will be turned to blood.
¹⁸And the fish that are in the river will die, and the river will stink; and the Egyptians will loathe to drink of the water of the river.
¹⁹And Yahvah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff and lift up your hand on the waters of Egypt, on their rivers, on their ponds, and on all their pools of water, and on the streams, and they will become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, in both vessels of wood and vessels of stone.

²⁰And Moses and Aaron did as Yahvah had commanded them; and Aaron lifted up the staff which was in his hand and struck the waters of the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood.
²¹And the fish that were in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
²²And the magicians of Egypt did the same by their enchantments; but Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Yahvah had said.
²³And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take to heart even this sign.
²⁴And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

2 Exodus 8:1-15
¹Then Yahvah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Yahvah says, Let my people go that they may serve me.
²And if you refuse to let them go, look, I will strike all your borders with frogs;
³and the river will swarm with frogs, which will come up and enter into your house and into your bedroom and into your bed and into the houses of your servants and of your people and into your inner chambers and into your kneading troughs;
⁴and the frogs will come up both on you and on all your people and on all your servants.
⁵And Yahvah said to Moses, Say to Aaron your brother, Lift up your hand with your staff over the rivers and over the streams and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come on the land of Egypt.
⁶So Aaron lifted up his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
⁷And the magicians did the same with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

⁸Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, Pray to Yahvah, that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go that they may sacrifice to Yahvah.
⁹And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint a time; when I will pray for you and for your servants and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your house?
¹⁰And he said to him, Tomorrow. And Moses said, Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahvah our God.
¹¹And the frogs will depart from you and from your house and from your servants and from your people; they will remain in the river only.
¹²And Moses and Aaron went out from the presence of Pharaoh; and Moses prayed before Yahvah because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
¹³And Yahvah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died that were in the houses and in the courtyards and in the fields.
¹⁴And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
¹⁵And when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as Yahvah had said to Moses.

2 Exodus 8:16-19
¹⁶And Yahvah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Lift up your staff and strike the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
¹⁷And he did so; and Aaron lifted up his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the land, and it became lice on men and on cattle; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
¹⁸And the magicians did the same by means of their magic to bring forth lice, but they could not get rid of the lice; so there were lice on men and on cattle.
¹⁹Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Yahvah had said.

2 Exodus 8:20-32
²⁰And Yahvah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh; look, he goes out to his daily duty; and say to him, Yahvah says, Let my people go that they may serve me.
²¹Else, if you will not let my people go, look, I will send the arab on you and on your servants and on your people and on your house; and the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with the arab, like a field when it is covered with them.
²²And I will set apart on that day the land of Goshen, in which my people live, that no arab will be there, to the end that you may know that I am Yahvah in the middle of the land.
²³And I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign will be.
²⁴And Yahvah did so; and he brought a great arab into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was ruined by reason of the arab.

²⁵Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said to them, Go sacrifice to your God inside the land.
²⁶And Moses said, It is not proper to do so; for we will sacrifice to Yahvah our God some of the animals that are an abomination to the Egyptians. And if we should sacrifice animals that are idols before Egyptian eyes, they would stone us.
²⁷We will go 3 days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahvah our God, as he has commanded us.
²⁸And Pharaoh said, I will let you go that you may sacrifice to Yahvah your God in the wilderness; only you will not go very far, and you must also pray for me.
²⁹And Moses said, Look, I go out from your presence and I will pray before Yahvah and he will cause the arab to depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; but do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any longer by refusing to allow the people to go to sacrifice to Yahvah.
³⁰So Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and prayed before Yahvah.
³¹And Yahvah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the arab from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not 1 remained.
³²And Pharaoh also hardened his heart at this time and did not let the people go.

2 Exodus 9:1-7
¹Then Yahvah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him, Yahvah God of the Hebrews says, Let my people go that they may serve me.
²For if you refuse to let them go, and until now you have withheld them,
³look, Yahvah will strike your cattle which are in the desert, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep; there will be a very severe plague.
⁴And Yahvah will discriminate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of the Egyptians, so that none of the cattle that belong to the children of Israel will die, not even 1.
⁵And Yahvah appointed a set time saying, Tomorrow Yahvah will do this thing in the land.
⁶And Yahvah did that thing the next day, and all the cattle of the Egyptians died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel not 1 died.
⁷And Pharaoh sent, and look, there was not 1 of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the people go.

2 Exodus 9:8-12
⁸And Yahvah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take 2 handfuls of the ashes of the furnace and let Moses scatter it toward the skies in the sight of Pharaoh.
⁹And it will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and there will be boils breaking forth with sores on men, and on cattle, throughout all the land of Egypt.
¹⁰So they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses scattered it toward the skies in the sight of Pharaoh; and it became blistering boils, breaking out with sores on men, and on cattle.
¹¹And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils had spread among the magicians and throughout all the land of Egypt.
¹²And Yahvah hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them, as Yahvah had said to Moses.

2 Exodus 9:13-35
¹³And Yahvah said to Moses, Arise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Yahvah God of the Hebrews says, Let my people go that they may serve me.
¹⁴For this time I will send my plague on your heart and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is no one like me in all the land.
¹⁵For now I will stretch out my hand that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you will perish from the land.
¹⁶But for this cause I have raised you to the throne, to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the land.
¹⁷As yet you are continuing to detain this people and refusing to let them go.
¹⁸Look, tomorrow, about this time, I will cause a severe storm of hail, such as there has not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded even until now.
¹⁹Send now and gather your cattle and all that you have in the field; for on every man and the cattle which be found in the field, and will not be brought home, the hail will come down on them, and they will die.
²⁰He who feared the word of Yahvah among the servants of Pharaoh brought his servants and his cattle into the house.
²¹But he who did not regard the word of Yahvah left his servants and his cattle in the field.

²²And Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward the skies that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on men and on cattle and on all the grass in the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
²³And Moses lifted up his staff toward the skies; and Yahvah sent thunder and hail, and lightning ran along on the ground; and Yahvah showered hail on the land of Egypt.
²⁴So there was hail, and flaming fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
²⁵And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and cattle; and the hail destroyed all the herbs of the field and broke every tree of the field.
²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel lived, was there no hail.

²⁷Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time; Yahvah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
²⁸Pray before Yahvah, for there is yet a chance for forgiveness in his presence that there not be mighty thunderings and hail any longer; and I will let you go, and you will stay no longer.
²⁹And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to Yahvah; and the thunder will cease and there will not be hail any longer, that you may know that the land belongs to Yahvah.
³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you have not yet feared Yahvah God.
³¹And the flax and the barley were lost; for the barley was in the ear and the flax was boiled.
³²But the wheat and the rye were not lost; for they were sown late.
³³And Moses went out of the city from the presence of Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahvah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the land.
³⁴And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants.
³⁵And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the children of Israel go, as Yahvah had sent word to him by Moses.

2 Exodus 10:1-13
¹And Yahvah said to Moses, Go into Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may perform these signs among them,
²that you may relate in the presence of your son and of your son's son the things which I have done to the Egyptians and the signs which I have performed among them, that you may know that I am Yahvah.

³And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Yahvah God of the Hebrews says, How long will you refuse to fear me? Let my people go that they may serve me.
⁴Else, if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts on all your domain;
⁵and they will cover the face of the land so that men cannot see the ground; and they will eat the residue of what is left to you from the hail and will eat all the trees which have budded for you in the field;
⁶and they will fill your houses and the houses of your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they were on the land even to this day. And they turned, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

⁷And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long will we suffer this disaster? Let the men go that they may serve Yahvah their God; do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?
⁸So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go, serve before Yahvah your God; but who are those who are going?
⁹And Moses said to him, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds we will go, for it is a festival of Yahvah for all of us.
¹⁰And Pharaoh said to them, Let Yahvah be with you, but when I let you and your little ones go, look to it; perhaps you have evil intent.
¹¹Do not let it be so; go now, the older men, and serve before Yahvah; for it is the rest that you desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

¹²And Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come on the land of Egypt and eat the herbs of the land, even all that the hail has left.
¹³And Moses lifted up his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahvah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

2 Exodus 10:13-20
¹³And Moses lifted up his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahvah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
¹⁴And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the domain of the Egyptians; it was a great swarm; neither before them were such swarms of locusts as these, nor after them will be such swarms.
¹⁵For they covered the face of the whole land so that the land was darkened; and they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained no leaf on the trees nor grass in the field, through all the land of Egypt.
¹⁶Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said to them, I have sinned against Yahvah your God and against you.
¹⁷Now forgive me my fault this time also, and pray before Yahvah your God that he may remove from me this death.
¹⁸And Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and prayed before Yahvah.
¹⁹And Yahvah turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not 1 locust in all the domain of Egypt.
²⁰But Yahvah hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

2 Exodus 10:21-29
²¹Then Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward the skies that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even thick darkness.
²²And Moses lifted up his hand toward the skies; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt 3 days;
²³they did not see each other, nor rose any from his place for 3 days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
²⁴And Pharaoh called to Moses and said to him, Go, serve before Yahvah your God; only let your flocks and herds remain here; let your little ones also go with you.
²⁵Then Moses said to Pharaoh, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice to Yahvah our God.
²⁶Our cattle will also go with us; there will not be 1 hoof left behind; for we must take them to serve before Yahvah our God; and we do not know what else we must offer to Yahvah until we come there.
²⁷But Yahvah hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not let them go.
²⁸And Pharaoh said to Moses, Get away from here, take care of yourself, do not try to see my face again.
²⁹And Moses said, You spoke well, I will not try to see your face any longer.

2 Exodus 12:29-30
²⁹And it came to pass that at midnight Yahvah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison; and all the firstborn of cattle.
³⁰And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great wailing in the land of Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not 1 dead.

2 Exodus 12:31-36
³¹And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron that night, and said to them, Rise up and get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahvah, as you have said.
³²Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and also bless me.

³³And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might get them out of the land of Egypt in haste; for they said, We will all die.
³⁴And the people took their kneading dough before it was leavened and their cold kneading dough wrapped up in their mantles on their shoulders.
³⁵And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothing;
³⁶and Yahvah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them whatever they asked. And thus they stripped the Egyptians.