^10:1ADONAI said to Moshe, "Go in to Par`oh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, ^10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am ADONAI."

^10:3Moshe and Aharon went in to Par`oh, and said to him, "This is what ADONAI, the G-d of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. <sup>10:4</sup>Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, <sup>10:5</sup>and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. <sup>10:6</sup>Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Par`oh.

^10:7Par`oh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve ADONAI, their G-d. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

^10:8Moshe and Aharon were brought again to Par`oh, and he said to them, "Go, serve ADONAI your G-d; but who are those who will go?"

^10:9Moshe 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 ADONAI."

^10:10He said to them, "ADONAI be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. ^10:11Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve ADONAI; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Par`oh's presence.

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Sheni [2nd]

^10:12ADONAI said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." ^10:13Moshe stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and ADONAI brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. ^10:14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. ^10:15For they covered the surface 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. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. ^10:16Then Par`oh called for Moshe and Aharon in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against ADONAI your G-d, and against you. ^10:17Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to ADONAI your G-d, that he may also take away from me this death."

^10:18He went out from Par`oh, and prayed to ADONAI. <sup>10:19</sup>ADONAI turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Sea of Suf. There remained not one arbeh in all the borders of Egypt. <sup>10:20</sup>But ADONAI hardened Par`oh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el go.

^10:21ADONAI said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." ^10:22Moshe stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ^10:23They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Yisra'el had light in their dwellings.

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Shlishi [3rd]

^10:24Par`oh called to Moshe, and said, "Go, serve ADONAI. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

^10:25Moshe said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to ADONAI our G-d. ^10:26Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left behind, for of it we must take to serve ADONAI our G-d; and we don't know with what we must serve ADONAI, until we come there."

^10:27But ADONAI hardened Par`oh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go. <sup>10:28</sup>Par`oh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

^10:29Moshe said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

^11:1ADONAI said to Moshe, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Par`oh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. <sup>11:2</sup>Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." <sup>11:3</sup>ADONAI gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moshe was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Par`oh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

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R'vi'i [4th]

^11:4Moshe said, "This is what ADONAI says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, ^11:5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Par`oh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle. <sup>11:6</sup>There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more. <sup>11:7</sup>But against any of the children of Yisra'el a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that ADONAI makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Yisra'el. <sup>11:8</sup>All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Par`oh in hot anger.

^11:9ADONAI said to Moshe, "Par`oh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." <sup>11:10</sup>Moshe and Aharon did all these wonders before Par`oh, and ADONAI hardened Par`oh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el go out of his land.

^12:1ADONAI spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt, saying, ^12:2"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. ^12:3Speak to all the congregation of Yisra'el, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; ^12:4and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. ^12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: ^12:6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisra'el shall kill it at evening. ^12:7They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. ^12:8They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and matzah. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. ^12:9Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. ^12:10You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. ^12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is ADONAI's Pesach. ^12:12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am ADONAI. ^12:13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. ^12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to ADONAI: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

^12:15Seven days shall you eat matzah; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el. ^12:16In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. ^12:17You shall observe the feast of matzah; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. ^12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat matzah, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. ^12:19Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra'el, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. ^12:20You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat matzah.'"

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Chamishi [5th]

^12:21Then Moshe called for all the elders of Yisra'el, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Pesach. ^12:22You shall 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; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ^12:23For ADONAI will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, ADONAI will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. ^12:24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. ^12:25It shall happen when you have come to the land which ADONAI will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. ^12:26It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?' ^12:27that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of ADONAI's Pesach, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra'el in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"

The people bowed their heads and worshiped. ^12:28The children of Yisra'el went and did so; as ADONAI had commanded Moshe and Aharon, so they did.

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Shishi [6th]

^12:29It happened at midnight, that ADONAI struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Par`oh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. <sup>12:30</sup>Par`oh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. ^12:31He called for Moshe and Aharon by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Yisra'el; and go, serve ADONAI, as you have said! ^12:32Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

^12:33The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." ^12:34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. ^12:35The children of Yisra'el did according to the word of Moshe; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. ^12:36ADONAI gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

^12:37The children of Yisra'el traveled from Ra`meses to Sukkot, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. ^12:38A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much cattle. ^12:39They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food. ^12:40Now the time that the children of Yisra'el lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. ^12:41It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of ADONAI went out from the land of Egypt. ^12:42It is a night to be much observed to ADONAI for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of ADONAI, to be much observed of all the children of Yisra'el throughout their generations.

^12:43ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, "This is the ordinance of the Pesach. There shall no foreigner eat of it, ^12:44but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. ^12:45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. ^12:46In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. ^12:47All the congregation of Yisra'el shall keep it. ^12:48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Pesach to ADONAI, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ^12:49One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you." ^12:50Thus did all the children of Yisra'el. As ADONAI commanded Moshe and Aharon, so they did. ^12:51It happened the same day, that ADONAI brought the children of Yisra'el out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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Shvi'i [7th]

^13:1ADONAI spoke to Moshe, saying, ^13:2"Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Yisra'el, both of man and of animal. It is mine."

^13:3Moshe said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand ADONAI brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. ^13:4This day you go forth in the month Aviv. ^13:5It shall be, when ADONAI shall bring you into the land of the Kana`ani, and the Chittite, and the Amori, and the Chivvi, and the Yevusi, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. ^13:6Seven days you shall eat matzah, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to ADONAI. ^13:7Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders. ^13:8You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which ADONAI did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.' ^13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of ADONAI may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand ADONAI has brought you out of Egypt. ^13:10You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

^13:11"It shall be, when ADONAI shall bring you into the land of the Kana`ani, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you, ^13:12that you shall set apart to ADONAI all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be ADONAI's. ^13:13Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

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Maftir [Concluding]

^13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand ADONAI brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; ^13:15and it happened, when Par`oh would hardly let us go, that ADONAI killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to ADONAI all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' ^13:16It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand ADONAI brought us forth out of Egypt."

^9:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with G-d? May it never be! ^9:15For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." ^9:16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of G-d who has mercy. ^9:17For the Scripture says to Par`oh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth." ^9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. ^9:19You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" ^9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against G-d? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" ^9:21Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? ^9:22What if G-d, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, ^9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, ^9:24us, whom he also called, not from the Yehudim only, but also from the Goyim? ^9:25As he says also in Hoshea,

 "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;
      And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

 ^9:26"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
      There they will be called 'children of the living G-d.'"

^9:27Yesha`yahu cries concerning Yisra'el,

 "If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea,
      It is the remnant who will be saved;

 ^9:28For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
      Because ADONAI will make a short work upon the earth."

^9:29As Yesha`yahu has said before,

 "Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed,
      We would have become like Sedom,
      And would have been made like `Amorah."

Additional B'rit Chadashah readings:

Lukas (Luke) 2:22-24

^2:22When the days of their purification according to the law of Moshe were fulfilled, they brought him up to Yerushalayim, to present him to the Lord ^2:23(as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"), ^2:24and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."

Yochanan (John) 19:31-37

^19:31Therefore the Yehudim, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ^19:32Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; ^19:33but when they came to Yeshua, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. ^19:34However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. ^19:35He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. ^19:36For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." ^19:37Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

Acts 13:13-17

^13:13Now Sha'ul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. Yochanan departed from them and returned to Yerushalayim. ^13:14But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat, and sat down. ^13:15After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."

^13:16Sha'ul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Yisra'el, and you who fear G-d, listen. ^13:17The G-d of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

Revelation 8:6-9:12; 16:1-21

^8:6The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. ^8:7The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

^8:8The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood, ^8:9and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

^8:10The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters. ^8:11The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

^8:12The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way. ^8:13I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"

^9:1The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. ^9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. ^9:3Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. ^9:4They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have G-d's seal on their foreheads. ^9:5They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person. ^9:6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them. ^9:7The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces. ^9:8They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. ^9:9They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war. ^9:10They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. ^9:11They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Avaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon." ^9:12The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

^16:1I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of G-d on the earth!"

^16:2The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

^16:3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

^16:4The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. ^16:5I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things. ^16:6For they poured out the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." ^16:7I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord G-d, Shaddai, true and righteous are your judgments."

^16:8The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. ^16:9People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of G-d who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

^16:10The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, ^16:11and they blasphemed the G-d of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.

^16:12The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Perat. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise. ^16:13I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; ^16:14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of G-d, Shaddai.

^16:15"Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame." ^16:16He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.

^16:17The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" ^16:18There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. ^16:19The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Bavel the great was remembered in the sight of G-d, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. ^16:20Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. ^16:21Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed G-d because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.