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43 [a]When he performed his signs in Egypt,
    his wonders in the plain of Zoan.(A)
44 God turned their rivers to blood;
    their streams they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of insects that devoured them,(B)
    frogs that destroyed them.
46 He gave their harvest to the caterpillar,
    the fruits of their labor to the locust.
47 He killed their vines with hail,(C)
    their sycamores with frost.
48 He exposed their cattle to plague,
    their flocks to pestilence.(D)
49 He let loose against them the heat of his anger,
    wrath, fury, and distress,
    a band of deadly messengers.
50 He cleared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but delivered their animals to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,(E)
    the first fruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.

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Footnotes

  1. 78:43–55 Ex 7–12 records ten plagues. Here there are six divine attacks upon Egypt; the seventh climactic act is God’s bringing Israel to the holy land.

43 the day he displayed his signs(A) in Egypt,
    his wonders(B) in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;(C)
    they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies(D) that devoured them,
    and frogs(E) that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,(F)
    their produce to the locust.(G)
47 He destroyed their vines with hail(H)
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock(I) to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,(J)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.(K)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,(L)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.(M)

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