Joshua 24:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ »‘Later I sent Moses and Aaron, and I brought great trouble on Egypt. I led you out.

¹⁰ »Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.«

¹² »Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth. I will teach you what you are to say.« ¹³ But Moses said: »Please, Jehovah, send the message by whomever you will.« ¹⁴ Then the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: »Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. He is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

¹ Jehovah said to Moses: »See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. ² »You shall speak all that I command you. Your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. ³ »I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ »Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will use my power to punish (lay my hand upon) Egypt severely. I will bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt in organized family groups. ⁵ »The Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah when I use my power against Egypt and bring the sons of Israel out of there.« ⁶ Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded them. ⁷ Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they talked to Pharaoh. ⁸ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: ⁹ »Pharaoh will say: ‘Give me a sign to prove that God has sent you.’ Tell Aaron: ‘Take your shepherd’s staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh. It will become a large snake.’ ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials. It became a large snake. ¹¹ Then Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells. ¹² Each of them threw his staff down. They all became large snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed theirs.

³⁷ The Israelites left Rameses to go to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, plus all the women and children.

⁵¹ On that day Jehovah brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.

⁴³ when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields of Zoan. ⁴⁴ He turned their rivers into blood so that they could not drink from their streams. ⁴⁵ He sent a swarm of flies that bit them and frogs that ruined them. ⁴⁶ He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts. ⁴⁷ He killed their vines with hail and their fig trees with frost. ⁴⁸ He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock. ⁴⁹ He sent his fierce burning anger, his rage and fury against them. He sent an army of destroying angels. ⁵⁰ He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death. He let the plague take their lives. ⁵¹ He destroyed every firstborn in Egypt, the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.

²⁶ He sent his servant Moses, and he sent Aaron, whom he had chosen. ²⁷ They displayed his miraculous signs among them and did amazing things in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness and made their land dark. They did not rebel against his orders. ²⁹ He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die. ³⁰ He made their land swarm with frogs, even in the kings' bedrooms. ³¹ He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats infested their entire territory. ³² He gave them hail and lightning instead of rain throughout their land. ³³ He struck their grapevines and fig trees and smashed the trees in their territory. ³⁴ He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came. ³⁵ They devoured all the plants in the land. They devoured the crops in the fields. ³⁶ He killed all the firstborn sons, the first ones born in the land when their fathers were young.

⁸ He destroyed the first-born of Egypt, both of man and animal. ⁹ He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants.

¹⁰ To him who destroyed the Egyptians in their firstborn. His loving kindness is everlasting.