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10 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh, for I have declared hard his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I set these My signs in their midst,

² and so that thou recountest in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, that which I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have set among them, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.'

³ And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,

⁴ for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,

⁵ and it hath covered the eye of the land, and none is able to see the land, and it hath eaten the remnant of that which is escaped, which is left to you from the hail, and it hath eaten every tree which is springing for you out of the field;

⁶ and they have filled thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers nor thy father's fathers have seen, since the day of their being on the ground unto this day,' -- and he turneth and goeth out from Pharaoh.

⁷ And the servants of Pharaoh say unto him, `Until when doth this [one] become a snare to us? send the men away, and they serve Jehovah their God; knowest thou not yet that Egypt hath perished?'

⁸ And Moses is brought back -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and he saith unto them, `Go, serve Jehovah your God; -- who and who [are] those going?'

⁹ And Moses saith, `With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'

¹⁰ And he saith unto them, `Be it so, Jehovah [be] with you when I send you and your infants away; see -- for evil [is] before your faces;

¹¹ not so! go now, ye who [are] men, and serve Jehovah, for that ye are seeking;' and [one] casteth them out from the presence of Pharaoh.

¹² And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch out thy hand against the land of Egypt for the locust, and it goeth up against the land of Egypt, and doth eat every herb of the land -- all that the hail hath left.'

¹³ And Moses stretcheth out his rod against the land of Egypt, and Jehovah hath led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning hath been, and the east wind hath lifted up the locust.

¹⁴ And the locust goeth up against all the land of Egypt, and resteth in all the border of Egypt -- very grievous: before it there hath not been such a locust as it, and after it there is none such;

¹⁵ and it covereth the eye of all the land, and the land is darkened; and it eateth every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail hath left, and there hath not been left any green thing in the trees, or in the herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt.'

¹⁶ And Pharaoh hasteth to call for Moses and for Aaron, and saith, `I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you,

¹⁷ and now, bear with, I pray you, my sin, only this time, and make ye supplication to Jehovah your God, that He turn aside from off me only this death.'

¹⁸ And he goeth out from Pharaoh, and maketh supplication unto Jehovah,

¹⁹ and Jehovah turneth a very strong sea wind, and it lifteth up the locust, and bloweth it into the Red Sea -- there hath not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;

²⁰ and Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel away.

²¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.'

²² And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

²³ they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'

²⁴ And Pharaoh calleth unto Moses and saith, `Go ye, serve Jehovah, only your flock and your herd are stayed, your infants also go with you;'

²⁵ and Moses saith, `Thou also dost give in our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, and we have prepared for Jehovah our God;

²⁶ and also our cattle doth go with us, there is not left a hoof, for from it we do take to serve Jehovah our God; and we -- we know not how we do serve Jehovah till our going thither.'

²⁷ And Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not been willing to send them away;

²⁸ and Pharaoh saith to him, `Go from me, take heed to thyself, add not to see my face, for in the day thou seest my face thou diest;'

²⁹ and Moses saith, `Rightly hast thou spoken, I add not any more to see thy face.'

11 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `One plague more I do bring in on Pharaoh, and on Egypt, afterwards he doth send you away from this; when he is sending you away, he surely casteth you out altogether from this [place];

² speak, I pray thee, in the ears of the people, and they ask -- each man from his neighbour, and each woman from her neighbour, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold.'

³ And Jehovah giveth the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians; also the man Moses [is] very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.

⁴ And Moses saith, `Thus said Jehovah, About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,

⁵ and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who [is] behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;

⁶ and there hath been a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, and such as there is not again.

⁷ `And against all the sons of Israel a dog sharpeneth not its tongue, from man even unto beast, so that ye know that Jehovah doth make a separation between the Egyptians and Israel;

⁸ and all these thy servants have come down unto me, and bowed themselves to me, saying, Go out, thou and all the people who [are] at thy feet; and afterwards I do go out;' -- and he goeth out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

⁹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Pharaoh doth not hearken unto you, so as to multiply My wonders in the land of Egypt;'

¹⁰ and Moses and Aaron have done all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Jehovah strengtheneth Pharaoh's heart, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel out of his land.

12 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying,

² `This month [is] to you the chief of months -- it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;

³ speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month -- they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

⁴ `(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,)

⁵ a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take [it].

⁶ `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

⁷ and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

⁸ `And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

⁹ ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards;

¹⁰ and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.

¹¹ `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,

¹² and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I [am] Jehovah.

¹³ `And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye [are], and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt.

20 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

² and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³ `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,

⁴ and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

⁵ and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

⁶ And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

⁷ they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

⁸ `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.

⁹ And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.

¹⁰ `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,

¹¹ and having received [it], they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

¹² that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.

¹³ `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

¹⁴ take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

¹⁷ And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples by themselves in the way, and said to them,

¹⁸ `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes,

¹⁹ and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

²⁰ Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

²¹ and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'

²² And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'

²³ And he saith to them, `Of my cup indeed ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with ye shall be baptized; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but -- to those for whom it hath been prepared by my father.'

²⁴ And the ten having heard, were much displeased with the two brothers,

²⁵ and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

²⁶ but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

²⁷ and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;

²⁸ even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

25 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, my soul I lift up.

² My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.

³ Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou [art] the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁶ Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age [are] they.

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

⁸ Good and upright [is] Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah [are] kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

¹¹ For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it [is] great.

¹² Who [is] this -- the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

¹³ His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah [is] for those fearing Him, And His covenant -- to cause them to know.

¹⁵ Mine eyes [are] continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

⁹ Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

¹¹ And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.