Exodus 12

Author's note: When I opened my word processor this morning to finish this chapter up, every word had red squiggly lines under them indicating they were misspelled, except the words "I AM LORD Yehovah". He is our deliverer!

CHAPTER 12

1 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), saying,

2 “This month will be to you the beginning of months: it will be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak to all the congregation of God Prevails (Israel) , saying, In the tenth day of this month they will take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his appetite will make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb will be without blemish, a male of the first year. You will take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

6 You will keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of God Prevails (Israel) will kill it in the evening.

7 They will take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they will eat it.

8 They will eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they will eat it.

9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled with water, but roast it with fire; his head with his legs, and with the inner parts.

10 Let nothing of it remain until morning. If there is anything that will be left in the morning burn it with fire.

11 When you eat it, gird your loins. Have your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste: it is I AM's (the LORD, Yehovah) Passover.

12 Destruction will pass through the land of Double Straights (Egypt) this night, and will kill all the firstborn in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), both man and beast; and against all the gods of Double Straights (Egypt) judgment will be executed. I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

13 The blood will be a sign on the houses. Where the blood can be seen the destruction will pass over you, and the plague will not destroy you, when the land of Double Straights (Egypt) is stricken.

14 This day will be a memorial to you; and you will keep it a feast to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) throughout your generations; you will keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

15 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread. The first day you will put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from God Prevails (Israel) .

16 On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work will be done on them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

17 And you will observe the feast of unleavened bread; for on this day have I brought your armies out of the land of Double Straights (Egypt): therefore you will observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you will eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

19 Seven days there will be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, That soul will be cut off from the congregation of God Prevails (Israel) , whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

20 You will eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations you will eat unleavened bread.

21 Then Drawn (Moses) called for all the elders of God Prevails (Israel) , and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover.

22 Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. Let none of you will go out at the door of his house until the morning.

23 For I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will pass through to strike the Double Straighters (Egyptians). When He sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side posts, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will pass over the door, and will not permit the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

24 You will observe this thing as an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.

25 It will come to pass, when you be come to the land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will give you, just as He has promised, that you will keep this service.

26 And when your children will say to you, What mean you by this service?

27 You will say, It is the sacrifice of I AM's (the LORD, Yehovah) Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of God Prevails (Israel) in Double Straights (Egypt), when he struck the Double Straighters (Egyptians), and delivered our families. Then the people bowed the head and worshiped.

28 The children of God Prevails (Israel) went away, and did as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had commanded Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron).

29 It came to pass, that at midnight I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) stuck all the firstborn in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), from the firstborn of the Great House (Pharaoh) that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

30 Then the Great House (Pharaoh) rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Double Straighters (Egyptians); and there was a great cry in Double Straights (Egypt); for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

31 He called for Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) by night, and said, “Rise up, and leave my people, both you and the children of God Prevails (Israel). Go, serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), as you have said.

32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”

33 The Double Straighters (Egyptians) begged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, “We will all be dead men.”

34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

35 So, the children of God Prevails (Israel) did according to the word of Drawn (Moses); and they borrowed of the Double Straighters (Egyptians) jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

36 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) gave the people favor in the sight of the Double Straighters (Egyptians), so that they lent to them such things as they required. Thus they spoiled the Double Straighters (Egyptians).

37 The children of God Prevails (Israel) journeyed from Child of the Sun (Rameses) to Booths (Succoth)  about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

38 A mixed multitude also went up with them; and flocks, and herds, and very much cattle.

39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Double Straights (Egypt). It was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Double Straights (Egypt), and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

40 Now the time the children of God Prevails (Israel) dwelt in Double Straights (Egypt), was four hundred and thirty years.****

41 At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, that same day that all the hosts of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) left the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

42 It is a night to be observed unto I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) for bringing them out from the land of Double Straights (Egypt). This is that night of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) to be observed by all the children of God Prevails (Israel) in their generations.

43 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron), “This is the ordinance of the Passover: There will no stranger eat thereof:

44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then will he eat thereof.

45 A foreigner and an hired servant will not eat thereof.

46 In one house will it be eaten; you will not take of the flesh outside of the house; neither will you break a bone thereof.

47 All the congregation of God Prevails (Israel) will keep it.

48 And when a stranger will live with you, and will keep the Passover to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he will be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person will eat thereof.

49 One law will be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that lives among you.

50 Thus did all the children of God Prevails (Israel) ; as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) commanded Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron), so did they.

51 That selfsame day I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) brought the children of God Prevails (Israel) out of the land of Double Straights (Egypt) the whole host of them.

Exodus 11

1 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “I will bring one more plague upon the Great House (Pharaoh), and upon Double Straights (Egypt); afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will thrust you out altogether.

2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

3 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) gave the people favor in the sight of the Double Straighters (Egyptians). Moreover the man Drawn (Moses) was very great in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), in the sight of the Great House (Pharaoh)'s servants, and in the sight of the people.

4 Drawn (Moses) said, “Thus says I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), About midnight will I go out into the midst of Double Straights (Egypt):

5 And all the firstborn in the land of Double Straights (Egypt) shall die, from the firstborn of the Great House (Pharaoh) that sits upon his throne, even to the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Double Straights (Egypt), such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

7 But against any of the children of God Prevails (Israel) shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that you may know how that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) puts a difference between the Double  (Egyptians) and God Prevails (Israel).

8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, Get you out, and all the people that follow you: and after that I will go out.” And he went out from the Great House (Pharaoh) in a great anger.

9 And I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “The Great House (Pharaoh) will not listen to you and My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Double Straights (Egypt).”

10 Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) did all these wonders before the Great House (Pharaoh): and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) hardened the Great House (Pharaoh)'s heart. He would not let the children of God Prevails (Israel) go out of his land.

Exodus 10

1 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Go in to the Great House (Pharaoh). His heart, and the heart of his servants have been hardened. I will show these signs before him.

2 Recount them in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, how severely Double Straights (Egypt) was dealt with, and the signs that were directed at them; that you may know how that I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).”

3 Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) came in to the Great House (Pharaoh), and said to him, “Thus says I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God of the One From Beyonds (Hebrews), How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

4 Else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow, locusts will come into your territory.

5 They will cover the face of the earth, so that one will not be able to see the earth: and they will eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains from the hail, and will eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.

6 They will fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Double Straighters (Egyptians); like neither your fathers, nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day.” Then he turned, and went out from the Great House (Pharaoh).

7 The Great House (Pharaoh)'s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) their God. Don't you realize that Double Straights (Egypt) is destroyed?”

8 Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) were brought again to the Great House (Pharaoh): and he said to them, “Go, serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God. Tell me who will be going?”

9 Drawn (Moses) said, “We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).”

10 He answered them, “I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had better be with you, if I let you and your little ones go! You have an evil plan.

11 It will not be so! Take your men, and serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah); for that is what you asked.” And they were driven out from the Great House (Pharaoh)'s presence.

12 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Stretch out your hand over the land of Double Straights (Egypt) for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Double Straights (Egypt), and eat every herb of the land, everything that the hail has left”

13 So, Drawn (Moses) stretched forth his rod over the land of Double Straights (Egypt), and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 The locusts went up over all the land of Double Straights (Egypt), and rested in all the territory of Double Straights (Egypt). Very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

16 Then the Great House (Pharaoh) called for Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) in haste. He said, “I have sinned against I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God, and against you.

17 Now therefore forgive my sin this time, and intreat I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God, that He may take away from me this death.”

18 And he went out from the Great House (Pharaoh), and intreated I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

19 So, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Double Straights (Egypt).

20 But I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) hardened the Great House (Pharaoh)'s heart. He would not let the children of God Prevails (Israel) go.

21 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Double Straights (Egypt), even darkness which may be felt.”

22 And Drawn (Moses) stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) three days.

23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of God Prevails (Israel) had light in their dwellings.

24 Then the Great House (Pharaoh) called to Drawn (Moses), and said, “Go , serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah); your flocks and your herds will stay, but your little ones also go with you.”

25 But Drawn (Moses) answered, “You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) our God.

26 Our livestock also will go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for of them we must take to serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) our God; and we know not with what we must serve I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), until we get there.”

27 But I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) hardened the Great House (Pharaoh)'s heart, and he would not let them go.

28 The Great House (Pharaoh) said to him, “Get away from me! Don't come back. You will see my face no more; for in that day you see my face you will die!”

29 And Drawn (Moses) said, “You have spoken well, I will see your face again no more.”

* Note – How a substance reacts to the sun depends on it's character. The sun hardens brick, but melts wax. I AM's hardening of the Great House's heart reflects the Great House's character and his reaction to I AM.

Exodus 9

1 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Go in to the Great House (Pharaoh) and tell him, Thus says I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God of the One From Beyonds (Hebrews), Let my people go, that they may serve me.

2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

3 The hand of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will be upon your cattle in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep. There will be a devestating plague.

4 Yet, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will distinguish between the cattle of God Prevails (Israel) and the cattle of Double Straights (Egypt): and nothing shall die of all that is the children's of God Prevails (Israel) .”

5 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall do this thing in the land.”

6 So I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) did that thing the next day, and all the cattle of Double Straights (Egypt) died: but of the cattle of the children of God Prevails (Israel), not one died.

7 And the Great House (Pharaoh) sent investigators, and there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of the Great House (Pharaoh) was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

8 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses) and to Light Bringer (Aaron), “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace with you, and let Drawn (Moses) sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of the Great House (Pharaoh).

9 It shall become small dust in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) that will carry boils that spread with blisters upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before the Great House (Pharaoh); and Drawn (Moses) sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blisters upon man, and upon beast.

11 The magicians could not stand before Drawn (Moses) because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Double Straighters (Egyptians).

12 Yet I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) irritated and hardened the heart of the Great House (Pharaoh), and he did not listen to them; as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had spoken to Drawn (Moses).

13 Then, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before the Great House (Pharaoh), and say to him, Thus says I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God of the One From Beyonds (Hebrews), Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

14 Now you will be tread upon by plagues on your heart, and on your servants, and on your people; that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that you and your people might be attacked with pestilence; and you will be cut off from the earth.

16 Indeed, for this cause have you were raised up, to show in you My power; and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.

17 Yet you exalt yourself against My people, that you will not let them go?

18 Tomorrow, about this time it will rain a very horrible hail, such as has not been in Double Straights (Egypt) since the foundation of it, even until now.

19 Send therefore now, and gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field; for upon every man and beast which is in the field, and has not been brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.”

20 He that feared the word of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) among the servants of the Great House (Pharaoh) made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

21 And he that regarded not the word of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) left his servants and his cattle in the field.

22 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt), upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Double Straights (Egypt).”

23 So Drawn (Moses) stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) allowed thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) rained hail upon the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) since it became a nation.

25 The hail killed throughout all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) all that were in the field, both man and beast; and the hail destroyed every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

26 Only in the land of Drawing Near (Goshen), where the children of God Prevails (Israel) were, was there no hail.

27 Then the Great House (Pharaoh) sent, and called for Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron), and said to them, “I have sinned this time: I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

28 Intreat I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

29 Drawn (Moses) said to him, “As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah); and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is I AM's (the LORD, Yehovah).

30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym).”

31 The flax and the barley were destroyed: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was budding.

32 But the wheat and the rye were not destroyed: for they were not grown up.

33 Drawn (Moses) went out of the city from the Great House (Pharaoh), and spread his hands out to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah): and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was quit pouring on the earth.

34 When the Great House (Pharaoh) saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

35 And the heart of the Great House (Pharaoh) was hardened, neither would he let the children of God Prevails (Israel) go; as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had spoken by Drawn (Moses).