Scripture Reading:  Exodus 11:1-10 - NIV

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 wondersmay 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.

 Psalm Reading:  Psalm 105:23-38 - NIV                     

²³ Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

²⁴ The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,

²⁵ whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. 

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷ They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and made the land dark- for had they not rebelled against his words? 

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. 

³⁰ Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers. 

³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country. 

³² He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land; 

³³ he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. 

³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number; 

³⁵ they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil. 

³⁶ Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood. 

³⁷ He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered. 

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them. 

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