Shemoth (Exodus)

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Exod 2:1 And a man of the house of Lĕwi went and married a daughter of
Lĕwi.
Exod 2:2 And the woman conceived and bore a son. And she saw that he
was a lovely child, and she hid him three months.
Exod 2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took an ark of wicker
for him, and coated it with tar and pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in
the reeds by the edge of the river.
Exod 2:4 And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to
him.
Exod 2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
river, and her young women were walking by the river-side. And when she
saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her female servant to get it,
Exod 2:6 and opened it and saw the child, and see, the baby wept. So she
had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the children of the
Heḇrews.”
Exod 2:7 And his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a
nurse for you from the Heḇrew women to nurse the child for you?”
Exod 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” And the girl went and
called the child’s mother.
Exod 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and
nurse him for me, then I shall pay your wages.” So the woman took the child
and nursed him.
Exod 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter,
and he became her son. And she called his name Mosheh, saying, “Because I
have drawn him out of the water.”
Exod 2:11 And in those days it came to be, when Mosheh was grown, that he
went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens. And he saw a Mitsrite
beating a Heḇrew, one of his brothers.
Exod 2:12 So he turned this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he
smote the Mitsrite and hid him in the sand.
Exod 2:13 And he went out the second day and saw two Heḇrew men
fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why do you smite your
neighbour?”
Exod 2:14 And he said, “Who made you a head and a judge over us? Do you
intend to slay me as you slew the Mitsrite?” And Mosheh feared and said,
“Truly, the matter is known!”
Exod 2:15 And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and he sought to kill Mosheh.
But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Miḏyan.
And he sat down by a well.
Exod 2:16 And the priest of Miḏyan had seven daughters. And they came
and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock,
Exod 2:17 but the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Mosheh stood
up and came to their rescue, and watered their flock.
Exod 2:18 And they came to Re‛uw’ĕl their father, and he said, “How is it
that you have come so soon today?”
Exod 2:19 And they said, “A Mitsrite rescued us from the hand of the
shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”
Exod 2:20 And he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why did you
leave the man? Call him and let him eat bread.”
Exod 2:21 And Mosheh agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave
Tsipporah his daughter to Mosheh.
Exod 2:22 And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gĕreshom, for he
said, “I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.”
Exod 2:23 And it came to be after these many days that the sovereign of
Mitsrayim died. And the children of Yisra’ĕl groaned because of the slavery,
and they cried out. And their cry came up to Elohim because of the slavery.
Exod 2:24 And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered His
covenant with Aḇraham, with Yitsḥaq, and with Ya‛aqoḇ.
Exod 2:25 And Elohim looked on the children of Yisra’ĕl, and Elohim
knew!

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Exod 3:1 And Mosheh was shepherding the flock of Yithro his father-in-law,
the priest of Miḏyan. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and
came to Ḥorĕḇ, the mountain of Elohim.
Exod 3:2 And the Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame of fire from
the midst of a bush. And he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, but the
bush was not consumed.
Exod 3:3 And Mosheh said, “Let me turn aside now, and see this great sight,
why the bush does not burn.”
Exod 3:4 And יהוה saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him
from the midst of the bush and said, “Mosheh! Mosheh!” And he said, “Here
I am.”
Exod 3:5 And He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your
feet, for the place on which you are standing is set-apart ground.”
Exod 3:6 And He said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of
Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ.” And Mosheh
hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim.
Exod 3:7 And יהוה said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people
who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-
drivers, for I know their sorrows.
Exod 3:8 “And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the
Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to
a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Kena‛anites and the
Ḥittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the
Yeḇusites.
Exod 3:9 “And now, see, the cry of the children of Yisra’ĕl has come to Me,
and I have also seen the oppression with which the Mitsrites oppress them.
Exod 3:10 “And now, come, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring My
people, the children of Yisra’ĕl, out of Mitsrayim.”
Exod 3:11 And Mosheh said to Elohim, “Who am I that I should go to
Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim?”
Exod 3:12 And He said, “Because I am with you. And this is to you the sign
that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Mitsrayim, you
are to serve Elohim on this mountain.”
Exod 3:13 And Mosheh said to Elohim, “See, when I come to the children of
Yisra’ĕl and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you,’
and they say to me, ‘What is His Name?’ what shall I say to them?”
Exod 3:14 And Elohim said to Mosheh, “I am that which I am.” And He
said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am has sent me to
you.’ ”
Exod 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh, “Thus you are to say to the
children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘ יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham,
the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, has sent me to you. This is
My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.’
Exod 3:16 “Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra’ĕl together, and say
to them, ‘ יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, of Yitsḥaq,
and of Ya‛aqoḇ, appeared to me, saying, “I have indeed visited you and seen
what is done to you in Mitsrayim;
Exod 3:17 and I say: I am bringing you up out of the affliction of Mitsrayim
to the land of the Kena‛anite and the Ḥittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite
and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
Exod 3:18 “And they shall listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and
the elders of Yisra’ĕl, to the sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to
him, ‘ יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews has met with us. And now, please, let us
go three days’ journey into the wilderness to slaughter to יהוה our Elohim.’
Exod 3:19 “But I know that the sovereign of Mitsrayim is not going to let
you go, not even by a strong hand.
Exod 3:20 “And I shall stretch out My hand and smite Mitsrayim with all My
wonders which I shall do in its midst. And after that he shall let you go.
Exod 3:21 “And I shall give this people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites.
And it shall be, that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
Exod 3:22 “But every woman shall ask from her neighbour and from the
stranger in her house, objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments.
And you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters, and shall plunder
the Mitsrites.”

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Exod 4:1 And Mosheh answered and said, “And if they do not believe me,
nor listen to my voice, and say, ‘ יהוה has not appeared to you?’ ”
Exod 4:2 And יהוה said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A
rod.”
Exod 4:3 And He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the
ground, and it became a serpent. And Mosheh fled from it.
Exod 4:4 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail” – so he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his
hand –
Exod 4:5 so that they believe that יהוה Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of
Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, has appeared to
you.”
Exod 4:6 And יהוה said to him again, “Now put your hand in your bosom.”
And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, and see, his hand
was leprous, like snow.
Exod 4:7 And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his
hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and see, it was
restored like his other flesh.
Exod 4:8 “And it shall be, if they do not believe you, nor listen to the voice
of the first sign, they shall believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exod 4:9 “And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or
listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the
dry land. And the water which you take from the river shall become blood on
the dry land.”
Exod 4:10 And Mosheh said to יהוה, “O  ,יהוהI am not a man of words,
neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of
speech and slow of tongue.”
Exod 4:11 And יהוה said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who
makes dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, יהוה ?
Exod 4:12 “And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what
to say.”
Exod 4:13 But he said, “O יהוה, please send by the hand of him whom You
would send.”
Exod 4:14 And the displeasure of יהוה burned against Mosheh, and He said,
“Is not Aharon the Lĕwite your brother? I know that he speaks well. And see,
he is also coming out to meet you. And when he sees you, he shall be glad in
his heart.
Exod 4:15 “And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And
I am with your mouth and with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do.
Exod 4:16 “And he shall speak for you to the people. And it shall be that he
shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be an elohim for him.
Exod 4:17 “And take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the
signs.”
Exod 4:18 Then Mosheh went and returned to Yithro his father-in-law, and
said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in
Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh,
“Go in peace.”
Exod 4:19 And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miḏyan, “Go, return to Mitsrayim, for
all the men are dead who sought your life.”
Exod 4:20 So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey,
and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim
in his hand.
Exod 4:21 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “As you go back to Mitsrayim, see that
you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I
am going to harden his heart, so that he does not let the people go.
Exod 4:22 “And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Yisra’ĕl is My
son, My first-born,
Exod 4:23 so I say to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let
him go, see, I am killing your son, your first-born.” ’ ”
Exod 4:24 And it came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that יהוה met
him and sought to kill him.
Exod 4:25 And Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her
son and threw it at Mosheh’s feet, and said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of
blood to me!”
Exod 4:26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of
blood,” because of the circumcision.
Exod 4:27 And יהוה said to Aharon, “Go to meet Mosheh in the wilderness.”
And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim, and kissed him.
Exod 4:28 Mosheh then told Aharon all the words of יהוה who had sent him,
and all the signs which He had commanded him.
Exod 4:29 And Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the
elders of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 4:30 And Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to
Mosheh. Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people.
Exod 4:31 And the people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited the
children of Yisra’ĕl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they
bowed their heads and did obeisance.

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Exod 5:1 And afterwards Mosheh and Aharon went in and said to Pharaoh,
“Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let My people go, so that they keep a
festival to Me in the wilderness.’ ”
Exod 5:2 And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let
Yisra’ĕl go? I do not know יהוה, nor am I going to let Yisra’ĕl go.”
Exod 5:3 And they said, “The Elohim of the Heḇrews has met with us.
Please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness and slaughter to יהוה
our Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
Exod 5:4 But the sovereign of Mitsrayim said to them, “Mosheh and Aharon,
why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens.”
Exod 5:5 And Pharaoh said, “See, the people of the land are many now, and
you make them cease from their burdens!”
Exod 5:6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the
people and their foremen, saying,
Exod 5:7 “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as
before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exod 5:8 “And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made
before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying,
‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’
Exod 5:9 “Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and
not pay attention to words of falsehood.”
Exod 5:10 And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out
and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you
straw.
Exod 5:11 ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your
work shall not be diminished.’ ”
Exod 5:12 And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to
gather stubble for straw.
Exod 5:13 And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete
your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”
Exod 5:14 Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s
slave-drivers had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have
you not completed your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as
before?”
Exod 5:15 And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to
Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?
Exod 5:16 “There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us,
‘Make bricks!’ And see, your servants are beaten, but your own people are at
fault.”
Exod 5:17 But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say,
‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’
Exod 5:18 “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the
amount of bricks.”
Exod 5:19 And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in
trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of
bricks.”
Exod 5:20 And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and
Aharon who stood there to meet them.
Exod 5:21 And they said to them, “Let יהוה look on you and judge, because
you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his
servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Exod 5:22 And Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “ יהוה, why have You done
evil to this people? Why did You send me?
Exod 5:23 “For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has
done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all.”