¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, I will bring still one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will send you from here. When he sends you away completely, he will surely drive you out from here.

² Now speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.

³ And Jehovah gave favor in the eyes of the Egyptians toward the people. And the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.

⁴ And Moses said, So says Jehovah, About the middle of the night I will go out in the midst of Egypt.

⁵ And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl who is behind the mill; and every first born of animals.

⁶ And a great cry shall be in all the land of Egypt, such as never has been, and nothing like it shall be again.

⁷ And a dog shall not sharpen his tongue against all the sons of Israel, toward man and toward livestock, so that you may know that Jehovah distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.

⁸ And all these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow to me, saying, Go out, you and all the people at your feet. And afterward I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

⁹ And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My miracles may multiply in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before Pharaoh. And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not send away the sons of Israel from his land.