²⁰The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao; for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

²¹But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.

²²And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

²³And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

²⁴And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.

²⁵And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and sacrifice to your God in this land.

²⁶And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone us.

²⁷We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness; and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

²⁸And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.

²⁹And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

³⁰So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.

³¹And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left so much as one.

³²And Pharao’s heart was hardened, so that neither this time would he let the people go.

Chapter 9

And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

²But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:

³Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.

⁴And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.

⁵And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.

⁶The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.

⁷And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

⁸And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence of Pharao.

⁹And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of Egypt.

¹⁰And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling blains in men and beasts.

¹¹Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.

¹²And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

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