Shemos
Book 2: Exodus
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Chapter 10
Verse 1: Ad-noy said to Moshe,
"Go in to Pharaoh
for I have hardened his heart
and [also] the hearts of his servants,
so that I will be able to set [perform]
these [miraculous] signs in their midst.
Verse 2: And so that you may relate
in the ears of your son and grandson
how I made a mockery of the Egyptians,
and the miraculous signs I performed among them.
You will then know that I am Ad-noy."
Verse 3: Moshe and Aharon went in to Pharaoh
and they said to him,
"This is what Ad-noy, G-d of the Hebrews, has said,
'How
long will you refuse to be humbled before Me?
Send My people out that they may worship Me.
Verse 4: For if you refuse to send My people out,
I will bring locusts within your borders tomorrow.
Verse 5: They will cover the visible surface of the land
so that one will be unable to see the land.
They will eat all that was spared,
that remained for you from the hail,
and they will eat every tree
that grows for you in the field.
Verse 6: They will fill your houses,
and the houses of all your servants,
and the houses of all the Egyptians.
[It will be something] that was never seen
by your fathers or your fathers' fathers
since the day they were on the earth
until this day.' "
He [Moshe] then turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Verse 7: Pharaoh's servants said to him,
"How long will this [man] be a menace to us?
Send these men out
and let them worship Ad-noy, their G-d.
D
o you not yet realize that Egypt is [being] destroyed?"
Verse 8: Moshe and Aharon were brought back
to Pharaoh, and he said to them,
"Go worship Ad-noy, your G-d.
Exactly who will be going?"
Verse 9: Moshe said,
"With our young and with our old we will go.
With our sons, with our daughters,
with our sheep and with our cattle we will go,
for it is a festival to Ad-noy for all of us."
Verse 10: He [Pharaoh] said to them,
"So be it. May Ad-noy be with you
just as I will send you and your little ones.
Beware for evil confronts you.
Verse 11: This is not
right.
[Only] the [adult] men should go
and worship Ad-noy
for this is what you desire."
He had
them expelled from Pharaoh's presence.
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 12: Ad-noy said to Moshe,
"Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt
for the locusts [to bring the locusts]
and they will emerge upon the land of Egypt.
They will eat all the vegetation in the land,
that remained from [the destruction of] the hail."
Verse 13: Moshe stretched out his rod
over the land of Egypt
and Ad-noy directed an east wind over the land
all that day and all the night.
When morning came
the east wind had carried [brought] the locusts.
Verse 14: The locusts came up
over the whole land of Egypt,
and rested [settled] within all the borders of Egypt.
It was very severe.
Never before had there been such locusts
and
never again after them.
Verse 15: They covered the visible surface of the entire land
so that the land was darkened.
They ate all the vegetation of the land,
and all the fruit of the trees
that was left [spared] by the hail.
Nothing green remained on the trees
or on the vegetation of the field
in the entire land of Egypt.
Verse 16: Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moshe and Aharon,
and he said,
"I have sinned to Ad-noy, your G-d, and to you.
Verse 17: Now forgive my sin just this one time
and plead with Ad-noy, your G-d,
just to remove this death from me."
Verse 18: He [Moshe] left Pharaoh's presence
and prayed to Ad-noy.
Verse 19:
Ad-noy turned a very strong westerly wind,
that carried away the locusts,
and plunged them into the Reed Sea.
Not a single locust remained
in all of Egypt's borders.
Verse 20: Ad-noy hardened Pharaoh's heart,
and he did not send out the B'nei Yisrael.
Verse 21: Ad-noy said to Moshe,
"Stretch out your hand toward the sky,
and there will be
darkness over the land of Egypt.
The darkness will be tangible."
Verse 22: Moshe stretched
out his hand toward the sky,
and there was total darkness
in the entire land of Egypt for three days.
Verse 23: Man
could not see his fellow man,
nor could anyone rise from his place
for three days.
But all the B'nei Yisrael
had light in their dwellings.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 24: Pharaoh called to Moshe, and he said,
"Go! Worship Ad-noy.
Just let your sheep and cattle stay behind.
Even your little ones can go with you."
Verse 25: Moshe said,
"You too will give us sacrifices and burnt-offerings
that we will make [offer] to our G-d.
Verse 26: Our own flocks will also go with us.
Not a single hoof will remain.
We must take from them
to worship Ad-noy our G-d;
since we do not know
with
what [animals] we will worship Ad-noy
until we get there."
Verse 27: Ad-noy hardened Pharaoh's heart
and he was [no longer] willing to send them away.
Verse 28: Pharaoh said to him [Moshe] "Leave my presence.
Beware! Do not see my face again;
for on the day you see my face you will die."
Verse 29: Moshe said, "As you say.
I will not see your face again."
Chapter 11
Verse 1: Ad-noy said to Moshe,
"There is one more plague
that I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt.
After that he will send you away from here.
When he sends you away,
he will actually drive you out from here completely.
Verse 2: Speak, please, in the ears of the people,
and let
each man request [borrow] from his friend,
and each woman from her friend,
articles of silver and articles of gold."
Verse 3: Ad-noy gave the people favor
in the eyes of the Egyptians.
Moshe too was very great
in the land of Egypt,
[both] in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants
and in the eyes of the people.
Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Verse 4: Moshe said, "This is what Ad-noy has said,
About the time of midnight,
I will go
out in the midst of Egypt.
Verse 5: Every first-born in the land of Egypt will die,
from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting on his throne,
to the first-born of the [Egyptian] slave girl,
behind the mill-stones,
and every first-born animal.
Verse 6: There
will be a great cry [of anguish]
throughout the entire land of Egypt,
the likes of which there never was
and like there never will be.
Verse 7: But among all the B'nei Yisrael,
a dog will not sharpen its tongue [growl]
at man or animal.
You will then know
that Ad-noy distinguishes
between Egypt and Yisrael.
Verse 8: Then all these, your servants, will come down to me,
and prostrate themselves saying,
'Go! You
and all the people that follow you.
Then I will go out."
He [Moshe] then left Pharaoh in great anger.
Verse 9: Ad-noy said to Moshe,
"Pharaoh will not listen to you.
Thus I will multiply My wonders in the land of Egypt."
Verse 10: Moshe and Aharon had done
all these wonders before Pharaoh.
[However] Ad-noy hardened Pharaoh's heart
and he did not send the B'nei Yisrael
out of his land.
Chapter 12
Verse 1: Ad-noy said to Moshe and Aharon
in the land of Egypt saying:
Verse 2: "This month shall be [reckoned] to you
[as] the
head [beginning] of months.
It shall be to you the first
of the months of the year.
Verse 3: Speak to the entire community of Israel saying,
'On the
tenth [day] of this month
they shall take---
each man [shall take] a lamb for [his] family,
a lamb for each household.
Verse 4: If the [members of the] household are too few
for the [eating of a] lamb
then he
shall take [a lamb]
[together] with his neighbor, close by his house,
according to the number of individuals.
According to what the person eats
shall you make your count regarding the lamb.
Verse 5: A flawless lamb, a yearling male
must be in your possession.
You may
take it from sheep or goats.
Verse 6: You shall hold it in safekeeping
until the fourteenth
day of this month,
they shall slaughter it---
the entire community of Yisrael---
between evenings [in the afternoon].
Verse 7: They shall take of
its blood
and place it on the side of the doorposts
and on the lintel of the houses
in which they will eat [the lamb].
Verse 8: They
shall eat the meat during this night.
It shall be roasted over fire.
They shall eat it with matzos and bitter herbs.
Verse 9: You must not eat it half-cooked
or boiled in water,
but only roasted over fire,
its head
with its knees and its inner organs.
Verse 10: You must not leave any of it over until morning.
Any of it left over until morning
must be burned in fire.
Verse 11: This is how you must eat it:
with
your waist belted, your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand.
You must eat it in haste,
it is a Pesach-offering to Ad-noy.
Verse 12: I will pass through the land of Egypt
on that
night,
and I will strike [kill] every first-born
in the land of Egypt, from man to beast;
and against all the gods of Egypt,
I will execute judgments, I am Ad-noy.
Verse 13: The blood will be for you as a sign
on the houses where
you are [staying].
I will see the blood and I will pass over you.
There will be no plague against you
when I strike the land of Egypt.
Verse 14: This day shall
be for you a [day of] remembrance.
You shall celebrate it as a festival to Ad-noy,
throughout your generations.
It is an eternal statute that you must celebrate it.
Verse 15: You must eat
matzos for seven days,
but before the first day
you
must remove [all] leaven from your homes;
for anyone who eats chametz,
that soul will be cut off from Yisrael.
[Chametz is forbidden] from the first day [of Pesach]
until [after] the seventh day.
Verse 16: The first day shall be a holy assembly
and the
seventh day shall be a holy assembly
to you.
No work shall be done on them,
only for [the preparation of food]
which will be eaten by every person,
that alone may be done for you.
Verse 17: You must be vigilant regarding the matzos,
for on
this very day
I brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt.
You must preserve this day for your generations,
it is an eternal statute.
Verse 18: In the first [month]
on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening
you shall eat matzos,
[continuing] until the twenty-first day of the month
in the
evening.
Verse 19: For seven days
no leaven may be found in your homes,
for whoever eats chametz
that
soul shall be cut off
from the community of Israel,
whether a proselyte or a native born in the land.
Verse 20: You must not eat anything that is chametz.
In all your dwellings you shall eat matzos.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 21:
Moshe called to all the elders of Yisrael,
and he said to them,
"Draw [from your flocks] or purchase for yourselves
a lamb for your families
and slaughter it as a Pesach offering.
Verse 22: Take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the basin.
Touch
the lintel and the two side [door] posts
with some of the blood in the basin.
And all of you,
let no man go out the door of his house
until morning.
Verse 23: Ad-noy will pass through to plague the Egyptians
and He will see the blood
on the lintel and on the two side [door] posts.
Ad-noy will then pass over that door
and will not allow the destroyer
to
enter your houses to plague you.
Verse 24: You must preserve this [ritual]
as a statute for you and your children forever.
Verse 25: When you come to the land
that Ad-noy will give to you, as He spoke,
you must preserve this service.
Verse 26: When your children will ask you,
"What is this service of yours?"
Verse 27: You shall say, "It is the Pesach-offering to Ad-noy
Who passed over
the houses of the B'nei Yisrael in Egypt
when He struck the Egyptians and saved our homes.
The people then bowed and prostrated themselves.
Verse 28: The B'nei Yisrael went and did
as
Ad-noy commanded Moshe and Aharon.
They [also] did so.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 29: It was [exactly] midnight
and Ad-noy struck down [killed]
every first-born son in the land of Egypt,
from
the first-born son of Pharaoh sitting on his throne,
to the first-born son of the captive [prisoner]
who was in the dungeon,
as well as every first-born animal.
Verse 30: Pharaoh arose at night,
he and
all his servants and all the Egyptians,
and there was a great cry in Egypt,
for there was no house where there were no dead.
Verse 31: [Pharaoh] called for Moshe and Aharon that night
and said, "Set out! Get out from among my people,
both you and the B'nei Yisrael.
Go
worship Ad-noy as you have said [requested].
Verse 32: Take your sheep and cattle too,
as you have said and go; bless me too.
Verse 33: The Egyptians pressed the people
to hurry them---to send them out of the land,
for they said, "We are all dead men."
Verse 34: The people took their dough before it was leavened.
Their
leftovers were wrapped in their clothing,
[and carried] on their shoulders.
Verse 35: The B'nei Yisrael did as Moshe said,
and they requested of the Egyptians
silver articles and gold articles and clothing.
Verse 36: Ad-noy granted the people favor
in the eyes of the Egyptians,
and they granted their request.
They [B'nei Yisrael thus] drained Egypt of its wealth.
Verse 37:
The B'nei Yisrael traveled from Ramseis to Sukkos.
There were about six hundred thousand males on foot
besides the children.
Verse 38: A great mixture [of nationalities] also
went up with them.
There were [also] sheep and cattle,
a huge amount of livestock.
Verse 39: They baked the dough
that they had brought out of Egypt
into matzoh cakes, for it was not leavened.
Since they were driven out of Egypt
and could not delay,
they had also not prepared provisions for themselves.
Verse 40: The habitation of
the B'nei Yisrael
living in Egypt
lasted four hundred and thirty years.
Verse 41: It
was at the end
of the four hundred and thirty years,
and on that very day
all of Ad-noy's multitudes went out
of the land of Egypt.
Verse 42: This was a night of vigil for Ad-noy,
to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
This night remains a night of vigil to Ad-noy
for all the B'nei Yisrael for [all] their generations.
Verse 43:
Ad-noy said to Moshe and Aharon,
"This is the statute of the Pesach offering:
No alien may eat it.
Verse 44: However each man's slave
[if he was]purchased with money,
you must circumcise him and then he may eat it.
Verse 45:
An [alien] sojourner or hired worker may not eat it.
Verse 46: It must be eaten in one house.
You must not remove from the house
any of
its flesh, to the outdoors,
and you must not break any of its bones.
Verse 47: The entire community of Yisrael
must make this [offering].
Verse 48: When a proselyte dwells with you
and wants to make the Pesach-offering to Ad-noy,
every
male must be circumcised.
He may then come near [join] to make it,
and be like the native born.
But no uncircumcised male may eat of it.
Verse 49: There shall be one law
for the native born
and for the proselyte who dwells among you.
Verse 50: All the B'nei Yisrael did
as Ad-noy commanded Moshe and Aharon.
They [Moshe and Aharon] also did so.
Verse 51: On that very day,
Ad-noy took the B'nei Yisrael
out of Egypt in their multitudes.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Chapter 13
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying,
Verse 2: "Sanctify to Me all the first-born,
that [is the first to] open the womb
among the
B'nei Yisrael,
both of man and beast, it is Mine."
Verse 3: Moshe said to the people,
"Remember this day [as the day]
on which you came out of Egypt,
from the house of slavery,
for with a strong hand
Ad-noy brought you out from this.
You must not eat chametz.
Verse 4: On this day you went out,
in the month of Aviv [Nissan].
Verse 5: When Ad-noy brings
you
to the land of the Canaanite, the Chittites,
the Emorites, the Chivites and the Yevusites,
which He swore to your fathers
[that He would] give to you---
a land flowing with milk and honey---
you must conduct this service in this month.
Verse 6: For
seven days you must eat matzos,
and the seventh day is a festival to Ad-noy.
Verse 7: Matzos must be eaten these seven days.
No chametz may be seen in your possession,
and no leaven may be seen in all your boundaries.
Verse 8: You must tell your son [child] on that day saying,
'Because of this, Ad-noy did [this] for me
when I came out of Egypt.'
Verse 9: It
shall be to you as a sign on your hand,
and for a reminder between your eyes,
so that Ad-noy's teachings will be in your mouth,
for with a strong hand
Ad-noy brought you out of Egypt.
Verse 10: You must preserve this statute in its appointed time,
from year to year.
Verse 11: When Ad-noy brings you
to the land of the Canaanites
as He
swore to you and to your fathers;
and He will have given it to you.
Verse 12: [At that time] you must pass on, [set aside]
every one that [is first to] open the womb, to Ad-noy.
Every firstling that is dropped [born] by animals
that
belong to you,
the males shall belong to Ad-noy.
Verse 13: Redeem each firstling donkey with a sheep.
If it is not redeemed, you must break its neck.
Redeem every first-born male among your sons.
Maftir
Verse 14:
When your son asks you at a later time saying
'What is this?' You should say to him,
"With a strong hand Ad-noy brought us out of Egypt
from the house of slavery.
Verse 15: When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to send us out,
Ad-noy killed every first-born in the land of Egypt,
from the first-born of man
to the first-born of beast.
I am therefore sacrificing to Ad-noy
all that [is first to] open the womb which are male,
and the first-born of my sons I redeem.'
Verse 16: [These words] shall be a sign on your hand
and for totafos
between your eyes,
for with a strong hand
Ad-noy brought us out of Egypt."
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