1 Now the LORD had said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold."3 (The LORD made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's officials and by the people.)4 So Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt —worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.8 All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will leave." Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.9 The LORD had said to Moses, "Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you —so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt."10 Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

1 Et dixit Dominus ad Moysen : Adhuc una plaga tangam Pharaonem et gyptum, et post hc dimittet vos, et exire compellet. 2 Dices ergo omni plebi ut postulet vir ab amico suo, et mulier a vicina sua, vasa argentea et aurea. 3 Dabit autem Dominus gratiam populo suo coram gyptiis. Fuitque Moyses vir magnus valde in terra gypti coram servis Pharaonis et omni populo. 4 Et ait : Hc dicit Dominus : Media nocte egrediar in gyptum : 5 et morietur omne primogenitum in terra gyptiorum, a primogenito Pharaonis, qui sedet in solio ejus, usque ad primogenitum ancill qu est ad molam, et omnia primogenita jumentorum. 6 Eritque clamor magnus in universa terra gypti, qualis nec ante fuit, nec postea futurus est. 7 Apud omnes autem filios Isral non mutiet canis ab homine usque ad pecus : ut sciatis quanto miraculo dividat Dominus gyptios et Isral. 8 Descendentque omnes servi tui isti ad me, et adorabunt me, dicentes : Egredere tu, et omnis populus qui subjectus est tibi : post hc egrediemur. 9 Et exivit a Pharaone iratus nimis. Dixit autem Dominus ad Moysen : Non audiet vos Pharao ut multa signa fiant in terra gypti. 10 Moyses autem et Aaron fecerunt omnia ostenta, qu scripta sunt, coram Pharaone. Et induravit Dominus cor Pharaonis, nec dimisit filios Isral de terra sua.