²⁹At midnight the Lord 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. ³⁰Pharaoh, 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.

Pharaoh Allows the Israelites to Leave Egypt

³¹Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said, “You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go, worship the Lord as you asked. ³²Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!”

³³The Egyptians begged the people to leave the country quickly. They said, “Soon we’ll all be dead!” ³⁴So the people picked up their bread dough before it had risen and carried it on their shoulders in bowls, wrapped up in their clothes.

³⁵The Israelites did what Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes. ³⁶The Lord made the Egyptians generous to the people, and they gave them what they asked for. So the Israelites stripped Egypt of its wealth.

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