Exodus
Chapter 11
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “One more blow I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that he will send you away from here. When he sends you away, it will be finished. He will drive, he will drive you out from here.
2Speak, please, in the people’s hearing, and let each man ask his neighbor, and each woman her neighbor, for silver objects and gold objects.”
3God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. The man Moses too was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.
4Moses said, “This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. says: About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt.
5Every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the millstones, and every firstborn of the animals.
6There will be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as has never been and such as will never be again.
7But against all the sons of Israel, a dog will not sharpen its tongue, from man to animal, so that you know that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.
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Lo yecheratz kelev leshono: a dog will not cut, will not sharpen, its tongue. No dog will so much as snarl. The picture is printed.
8All these servants of yours will come down to me and bow low to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who are at your feet.’ After that I will go out.” He went out from Pharaoh in a burning anger.
9God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders multiply in the land of Egypt.”
10Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. strengthened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not send the sons of Israel out of his land.