1 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek: Gaan na Farao en sê vir hom: So spreek die HERE: Laat my volk trek, dat hulle My kan dien.
2 En as jy weier om hulle te laat trek, Kyk, dan sal Ek jou hele grondgebied met paddas teister,
3 sodat die Nyl van paddas sal wemel. En hulle sal opklim en in jou huis kom en in jou slaapkamer en op jou bed; ook in die huis van jou dienaars en onder jou volk, en in jou bakoonde en in jou bakskottels.
4 En die paddas sal teen jou en teen jou volk en teen al jou dienaars opspring.
5 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek: Sê aan A„ron: Steek jou hand uit met jou staf oor die strome en oor die kanale en oor die waterkuile, en laat die paddas opkom oor Egipteland.
6 En A„ron het sy hand oor die waters van Egipte uitgesteek, en daar het paddas opgekom en Egipteland oordek.
7 Maar die towenaars het dieselfde gedoen met hulle towerkunste en paddas laat opkom oor Egipteland.
8 Toe het Farao Moses en A„ron laat roep en gesê: Bid tot die HERE, dat Hy die paddas van my en van my volk wegneem. Dan sal ek die volk laat trek, dat hulle aan die HERE kan offer.
9 Maar Moses sê aan Farao: Aan u die eer bo my! Teen watter tyd moet ek vir u en u dienaars en vir u volk bid, dat die paddas van u en uit u huise uitgeroei word om net in die Nyl oor te bly?
10 En hy antwoord: Teen môre . Toe sê hy: Dit sal wees volgens u woord, dat u kan weet dat daar niemand is soos die HERE onse God nie.
11 En die paddas sal u en u huise en u dienaars en u volk verlaat. Net in die Nyl sal hulle oorbly.
12 Toe het Moses en A„ron van Farao af weggegaan; en Moses het tot die HERE geroep vanweë die paddas wat Hy oor Farao beskik het.
13 En die HERE het gedoen volgens die woord van Moses: die paddas het weggesterwe uit die huise, van die plase af en uit die veld.
14 En hulle het dit by hope bymekaargemaak, en die land het gestink.
15 En toe Farao sien dat daar verligting kom, het hy sy hart verhard en na hulle nie geluister nie, soos die HERE gespreek het.
16 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek: Sê aan A„ron: Steek jou staf uit en slaan die stof van die aarde, en dit sal muskiete word in die hele Egipteland.
17 En hulle het so gedoen: A„ron het sy hand met sy staf uitgesteek en die stof van die aarde geslaan, en daar het muskiete gekom op die mense en op die vee. Al die stof van die aarde het muskiete geword in die hele Egipteland.
18 En die towenaars het dieselfde gedoen met hulle towerkunste om die muskiete voort te bring, maar hulle kon nie. So was die muskiete dan op die mense en op die vee.
19 Toe sê die towenaars vir Farao: Dit is die vinger van God! Maar Farao se hart was verhard, sodat hy na hulle nie geluister het nie, soos die HERE gespreek het.
20 Verder het die HERE vir Moses gesê: Maak jou môre vroeg klaar en stel jou voor Farao -- kyk, hy sal na die water toe uitgaan en sê vir hom: So spreek die HERE: Laat my volk trek, dat hulle My kan dien.
21 Want as jy my volk nie laat trek nie, kyk, dan stuur Ek teen jou en teen jou dienaars en teen jou volk en teen jou huise die steekvlieë, sodat die huise van die Egiptenaars vol steekvlieë sal wees, en selfs die grond waar hulle op staan.
22 Maar Ek sal op die dag met die land Gosen, waarin my volk woon, 'n uitsondering maak, dat daar geen steekvlieë sal wees nie; sodat jy kan weet dat Ek die HERE is in die land.
23 En Ek sal 'n verlossing stel tussen my volk en jou volk. M"re sal hierdie teken plaasvind.
24 En die HERE het so gedoen: dik swerms steekvlieë het in die huis van Farao en in die huis van sy dienaars en in die hele Egipteland gekom; die land is deur die steekvlieë verwoes.
25 Toe laat Farao Moses en A„ron roep en sê: Gaan heen, offer aan julle God in die land.
26 Maar Moses antwoord: Dit is nie reg om so te doen nie; want wat ons aan die HERE onse God offer, is 'n gruwel vir die Egiptenaars. As ons iets wat 'n gruwel is vir die Egiptenaars, voor hulle oë offer, sal hulle ons dan nie stenig nie?
27 Laat ons drie dagreise ver die woestyn intrek, dat ons aan die HERE onse God kan offer soos Hy ons sal beveel.
28 Toe sê Farao: Ek sal julle laat trek, dat julle aan die HERE julle God kan offer in die woestyn; julle moet maar net nie te ver wegtrek nie. Bid vir my.
29 En Moses antwoord: Kyk, ek gaan van u af weg en sal tot die HERE bid, dat die steekvlieë môre Farao, sy dienaars en sy volk mag verlaat. Laat Farao ons net nie langer bedrieg deur die volk nie te laat trek om aan die HERE te offer nie.
30 Toe het Moses van Farao af weggegaan en tot die HERE gebid.
31 En die HERE het gedoen volgens die woord van Moses: Hy het die steekvlieë van Farao, van sy dienaars en sy volk weggeneem. Daar het nie een oorgebly nie.
32 Maar Farao het sy hart ook hierdie keer verhard en die volk nie laat trek nie.
1 And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
2 And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:
3 The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.
4 The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.
5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.
6 And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.
7 And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord.
9 And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.
10 And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.
11 And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.
12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh.
13 And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.
14 And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
16 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.
17 And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.
18 And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.
19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
20 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship.
21 For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies.
22 And at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the earth.
23 And I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign will be seen.
24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.
25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.
26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.
27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.
28 Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.
29 And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.
30 Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.
31 And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.
32 But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.