Nehemiah 9:10 Cross References - NSB

¹⁰ »You did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land. You saw how cruel they were to them. So you made a name for yourself as it is today.

² But Pharaoh responded: »Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and besides, I will not let Israel go.«

⁷ »Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. ⁸ »Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.

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. ¹³ Pharaoh continued to be stubborn. Just as Jehovah had predicted, he would not listen to them. ¹⁴ Jehovah said to Moses: »Pharaoh is being stubborn. He will not let my people go. ¹⁵ »In the morning meet Pharaoh when he is on his way to the Nile. Wait for him on the bank of the river. Take the staff that turned into a snake. ¹⁶ »Say to Pharaoh: ‘Jehovah the God of the Hebrews sent me to tell you, Let my people go to worship me in the wilderness. So far you have not listened.’« ¹⁷ »Jehovah says: ‘This is the way you will recognize that I am Jehovah: I will strike the Nile with this staff in my hand. The water will turn into blood. ¹⁸ ‘The fish in the Nile will die. The river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.«’« ¹⁹ Jehovah then spoke to Moses: »Tell Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt; its rivers, canals, ponds, and all its reservoirs. They will turn into blood. There will be blood everywhere in Egypt, even in the buckets of wood and stone pitchers.« ²⁰ Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the Nile in front of Pharaoh and his officials. All the water in the river turned into blood. ²¹ The fish in the Nile died. The river smelled bad. The Egyptians could not drink any water from the river. There was blood everywhere in Egypt. ²² But the Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells. So Pharaoh continued to be stubborn. He would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as Jehovah predicted. ²³ Pharaoh turned and went back to his palace. This did not change his mind and heart. ²⁴ All the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink any of the water from the river. ²⁵ Seven days passed after Jehovah struck the Nile.

¹ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Approach Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Jehovah says: »Let My people go, that they may serve me. ² »‘»But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will afflict your whole territory with frogs. ³ »‘»The Nile will swarm with frogs. They will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed. They will go into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls. ⁴ »‘»The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants.«’« ⁵ Jehovah also said to Moses: »Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools. Make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’« ⁶ »So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt. The frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷ »But the magicians used their secret powers to do the same thing. ⁸ »The king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them: If you ask Jehovah to take these frogs away from me and my people, I will let your people go and offer sacrifices to him.« ⁹ Moses answered: »You choose the time when I am to pray for the frogs to stop bothering you, your officials, and your people, and for them to leave your houses and be found only in the river.« ¹⁰ The king replied: »Do it tomorrow!« »As you wish:« Moses agreed. »Then everyone will discover that there is no god like Jehovah! ¹¹ »The frogs will no longer be found anywhere, except in the Nile.« ¹² Moses and Aaron left the palace. Moses begged Jehovah to do something about the frogs he had sent as punishment for the king. ¹³ Jehovah did as Moses asked. The frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died. ¹⁴ The Egyptians piled them up in large mounds, until the land began to stink with them. ¹⁵ The king saw that the frogs were dead. He became stubborn again and, just as Jehovah had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron. ¹⁶ Jehovah said to Moses: »Tell Aaron, »Strike the ground with your stick. The dust will change into gnats in all of Egypt.’« ¹⁷ So Aaron struck the ground with his stick. The dust in Egypt was turned into gnats. They swarmed over the people and the animals. ¹⁸ The magicians tried to use their magic to make gnats appear, but they failed. There were gnats everywhere! ¹⁹ The magicians said to the king: »It is the finger of God!« (God has done this!) But the king was stubborn. Just as Jehovah predicted, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron. ²⁰ Jehovah said to Moses: »Early tomorrow morning, go and meet the king as he goes to the river. Tell him that Jehovah says: ‘Let my people go, so that they can serve me. ²¹ »‘»I warn you that if you refuse, I will punish you by sending flies on you, your officials, and your people. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies. The ground will be covered with them. ²² »‘»At that same time I will cut off the land of Goshen where my people live. No swarms of flies shall be there. / Then you will know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth. ²³ »‘»I will put a dividing line between my people and your people. This sign will happen tomorrow.«’« ²⁴ Jehovah did what he said. Dense swarms of flies came into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. All over Egypt the flies ruined everything. ²⁵ Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron. He said: »Go, sacrifice to your God here in this country.« ²⁶ Moses replied: »It is not right to do that. The sacrifices we offer to Jehovah our God are disgusting to Egyptians. If they see us offer sacrifices that they consider disgusting, will they not stone us to death? ²⁷ »We need to travel three days into the desert to offer sacrifices to Jehovah our God, as he told us to do.« ²⁸ Pharaoh said: »I will let you go, but do not go far. You may offer sacrifices to Jehovah your God in the desert and pray for me.« ²⁹ Moses answered: »As soon as I leave you, I will pray to Jehovah. Tomorrow the swarms of flies will go away from you, your officials, and your people. But you must stop tricking us by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to Jehovah.« ³⁰ Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to Jehovah. ³¹ Jehovah did what Moses asked. The swarms of flies left Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Not a single fly was left. ³² Again Pharaoh was stubborn and did not let the people go.

¹ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, this is what Jehovah the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go to serve me. ² »If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them in slavery, ³ Jehovah will bring a terrible plague on your livestock, including your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats. ⁴ »‘»Jehovah will distinguish between Israel’s livestock and the livestock of the Egyptians. The animals belonging to the Israelites will not die.«’« ⁵ Jehovah set a definite time: »I, Jehovah, choose tomorrow as the time when I will do this.« ⁶ The next day Jehovah did as he had said. The Egyptian’s animals all died. Not one of the animals of the Israelites died. ⁷ The king asked what had happened. He was told that none of the animals of the Israelites had died. He was stubborn and would not let the people go. ⁸ Then Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: »Take a few handfuls of ashes from a furnace. Moses is to throw them into the air in front of the king. ⁹ »They will spread out like fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will produce boils that become open sores on the people and the animals.« ¹⁰ They got some ashes and stood before the king. Moses threw them into the air. They produced boils that became open sores on the people and the animals. ¹¹ The magicians were not able to appear before Moses, because they were covered with boils, like all the other Egyptians. ¹² Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to Moses and Aaron. Everything happened just as Jehovah had told Moses. ¹³ Jehovah told Moses to get up early the next morning and say to the king: »God of the Hebrews commands you to let his people go, so they can serve him! ¹⁴ »If you do not, he will send his worst plagues to strike you, your officials, and everyone else in your country. Then you will find out that no one can oppose Jehovah. ¹⁵ »He could already have sent a terrible disease and wiped you from the face of the earth. ¹⁶ »I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you my power and in order to proclaim my name through all the earth. ¹⁷ »Still you exalt yourself against my people by not letting them go. ¹⁸ »At this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. ¹⁹ »Bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home will die from the hail.« ²⁰ The ones among the servants of Pharaoh who respected the word of Jehovah made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses. ²¹ He who paid no regard to the word of Jehovah left his servants and his livestock in the field. ²² Jehovah said to Moses: »Stretch out your hand toward the sky. Hail will fall on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.« ²³ Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵ All over Egypt the hail knocked down everything that was out in the open. It struck down people, animals, and every plant in the fields and destroyed every tree in the fields. ²⁶ The region of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was the only place where there was no hail. ²⁷ The king sent for Moses and Aaron and said: »This time I have sinned. Jehovah is in the right. My people and I are in the wrong. ²⁸ »Pray to Jehovah! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go. You do not have to stay here any longer.« ²⁹ Moses said to him: »As soon as I go out of the city, I will lift up my hands in prayer to Jehovah. The thunder will stop. There will be no more hail. Thus you may know that the earth belongs to Jehovah. ³⁰ »But I know that you and your servants do not yet respect Jehovah God.« ³¹ The flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was ripe, and the flax was budding. ³² But the wheat crops ripen later, and they were not damaged.

¹ Jehovah told Moses: »Go back to the king. I have made him and his officials stubborn, so that I could work these signs. ² »I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.« ³ Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him: »Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. ⁴ »‘If you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. ⁵ »‘They shall cover the surface of the land. No one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped and is left to you from the hail. They will eat every tree that sprouts 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. This is something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day. He turned and went out from Pharaoh.’« ⁷ Pharaoh’s servants said to him: »How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?« ⁸ Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh. He said to them: »Go! Serve Jehovah your God. Who are the ones that shall go?« ⁹ Moses said: »We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds. We must hold a feast to Jehovah.« ¹⁰ He said to them: »May Jehovah be with you, as I send you and your little ones away. Watch out for evil is before you. ¹¹ »Not so! You men go now and serve Jehovah. It is you who desired it.« So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. ¹² Jehovah said to Moses: »Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. Let them come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.« ¹³ Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts. ¹⁴ They invaded all of Egypt and landed all over the country in great swarms. Never before had there been so many locusts, nor would there ever be that many again. ¹⁵ They covered all the ground until it was black with them. They ate all the plants and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant anywhere in Egypt. ¹⁶ Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said: »I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you. ¹⁷ »Please forgive my sin one more time. Pray to Jehovah your God to take this deadly plague away from me.« ¹⁸ Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to Jehovah. ¹⁹ Jehovah changed the wind to a very strong west wind. It picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt. ²⁰ But Jehovah made the king stubborn. He did not let the Israelites go. ²¹ Jehovah then said to Moses: »Raise your hand toward the sky. Darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt.« ²² Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days. ²³ The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living. ²⁴ The king called Moses. He said: »You may go and worship Jehovah. Even your women and children may go with you. But your sheep, goats, and cattle must stay here.« ²⁵ Moses answered: »Then you would have to provide us with animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to offer to Jehovah our God. ²⁶ »No, we will take our animals with us! Not one will be left behind. We must select the animals with which to worship Jehovah our God. We will not know what animals to sacrifice to him until we get there.« ²⁷ Jehovah made the king stubborn. He would not let them go. ²⁸ He said to Moses: »Get out of my sight! Do not let me ever see you again! On the day I do, you will die!« ²⁹ »You have spoken it!« Moses answered. »You will never see me again.«

¹ Jehovah said to Moses: »I will send only one more punishment (plague) on the king of Egypt and his people. After that he will let you leave. In fact, he will drive all of you out of here. ² »Speak to the people of Israel and tell all of them to ask their neighbors for gold and silver jewelry.« ³ Jehovah made the Egyptians respect the Israelites. Indeed, the officials and all the people considered Moses to be a very great man. ⁴ Moses approached the king. He said: »I have come to let you know what Jehovah is going to do. About midnight he will go through the land of Egypt, ⁵ and wherever he goes, the first-born son in every family will die. Your own son will die. So will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the first-born males of cattle will die. ⁶ »Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again. ⁷ »But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast. This is so you may understand how Jehovah makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.« ⁸ All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me. They will say: »Go out, you and all the people who follow you. Then I will go out.« He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. ⁹ Then Jehovah said to Moses: »Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my signs will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.« ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh. Yet Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart. He did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

¹ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ² »This month shall be the beginning of months for you. It is to be the first month of the year to you. ³ »Tell the whole community of Israel: ‘On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household. ⁴ »‘A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat. ⁵ »‘Your animal must be a one-year-old male that has no defects. You may choose a lamb or a young goat. ⁶ »‘Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals. ⁷ »‘Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten. ⁸ »‘That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast. ⁹ »‘Do not eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted. ¹⁰ »‘Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left. ¹¹ »‘Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s Passover.’« ¹² Jehovah said: »That night I will go through the land of Egypt. I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt! I am Jehovah! ¹³ »The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you live. When I see the blood I will pass over you. No plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ »This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations. ¹⁵ »You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ »You shall have a holy assembly on the first day. There should be another holy assembly on the seventh day. No work at all will be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person that alone may be prepared by you. ¹⁷ »You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance. ¹⁸ »In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ »There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. ²⁰ »You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.« ²¹ Moses called all the elders of Israel and said: »Take lambs according to your families and slay the Passover lamb. ²² »Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning. ²³ »Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, Jehovah will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to kill you. ²⁴ »You shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children from generation to generation. ²⁵ »When you enter the land Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this rite. ²⁶ »When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you? ²⁷ »You shall say: ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.’« ²⁸ Then the sons of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron. ²⁹ At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal. ³⁰ Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the other Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died. ³¹ Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said: »You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go serve Jehovah just as you requested. ³² »Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!«

¹ Jehovah said to Moses: ² »Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the Red Sea, near Baal Zephon. ³ »The king will think that the Israelites are wandering around in the country and are closed in by the desert. ⁴ »I will make him stubborn. He will pursue you. My victory over the king and his army will bring me honor. Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah!« The Israelites did as they were told. ⁵ The king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped. He and his officials changed their minds and said: »What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as our slaves!« ⁶ The king got his war chariot and army ready. ⁷ He commanded his officers in charge of his six hundred best chariots and all his other chariots to start after the Israelites. ⁸ Jehovah made the king so stubborn that he went after them. The Israelites proudly went on their way. ⁹ The king’s horses and chariots and soldiers caught up with them while they were camping by the Red Sea near Pi-Hahiroth and Baal-Zephon. ¹⁰ The Israelites saw the king coming with his army. They were frightened and begged Jehovah for help. ¹¹ They also complained to Moses: Was there not enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt? ¹² »Did we not say in Egypt: Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert.« ¹³ But Moses said to the people: »Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of Jehovah. He will accomplish this for you today. The Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. ¹⁴ »Jehovah will fight for you while you keep silent.« ¹⁵ Jehovah said to Moses: »Why are you crying out to me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. ¹⁶ »As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. The sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land. ¹⁷ »I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. ¹⁸ »Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I am honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots and his horsemen.« ¹⁹ The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. ²⁰ So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night. ²¹ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Jehovah swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land. The waters were divided. ²² The Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground. The water stood like a wall on their right and on their left. ²³ The Egyptians pursued them. Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and cavalry followed them into the sea. ²⁴ Just before dawn, Jehovah looked down from the column of fire and smoke and threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. ²⁵ He made the wheels of their chariots come off. They could hardly move. Then the Egyptians shouted: »Let us get out of here! Jehovah is fighting for Israel! He is against us!« ²⁶ Jehovah then said to Moses: »Hold out your hand over the sea, and the water will flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and drivers.« ²⁷ Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But Jehovah threw them into the sea. ²⁸ The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. None of them were left. ²⁹ On the other hand, the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on both sides. ³⁰ That day Jehovah saved the people of Israel from the Egyptians. The Israelites saw them lying dead on the seashore. ³¹ The Israelites saw the great power with which Jehovah had defeated the Egyptians. So they stood in awe of Jehovah. They had faith in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.

¹¹ »Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the other gods. It was proven when they treated the people with contempt.«

³ »They have not seen his signs and the work he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land. ⁴ »And what He did to Egypt's army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea engulf them while they pursued. Jehovah completely destroyed them!

³⁴ »Has God attempted to take a nation from the middle of another nation? Has he done this by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by great terrors? Yes, and by the use of his great power! Jehovah your God did all this for you in Egypt before your very eyes!

¹⁰ »We heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. ¹¹ »As soon as we heard these things we became discouraged. No man had courage because of you. Jehovah your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

¹¹ »Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low! ¹² »Look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand.

¹² He wrought wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand up like a heap.

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. ⁵² He led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness. ⁵³ He led them safely. They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.

¹⁸ That they may know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

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. ³⁷ He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders. They did not remember your abundant kindnesses. But they rebelled by the Red Sea. ⁸ Nevertheless he saved them for the sake of his name that he might make his power known. ⁹ So he rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, and he led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries and not one of them was left.

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. ¹¹ And brought Israel out from their midst, for his loving kindness is everlasting. ¹² With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness is everlasting. ¹³ To Him who divided the Red Sea asunder. His loving kindness is everlasting. ¹⁴ And made Israel pass through the midst of it. For his loving kindness is everlasting. ¹⁵ But he overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

¹² Where is the one who sent his powerful arm to support the right hand of Moses? Where is the one who divided the water in front of them to make an everlasting name for himself?

¹⁴ Just like animals going down into a valley, they were given rest by Jehovah’s Spirit. In this way you guided your people to make an honored name for yourself.

²⁰ »You set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Even to this day both in Israel and among mankind you have made a name for yourself.

⁹ »‘»But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name. In the presence of the people among whom they were living I had announced to Israel that I was going to lead them out of Egypt.

³⁷ »Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase (humble) (subdue) those who walk in pride.«

²³ »You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life.

¹⁵ »And now, O Jehovah our God, you brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made a name for yourself that day. We have sinned! We have done wickedly.

³⁶ »He brought them out. He showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

¹⁷ The scripture says to Pharaoh: »For this reason I have raised you up, that I might through you, show my power and declare my name in all the earth.«

⁵ Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.