⁸ Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray^(A) to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices^(B) to the Lord.”

²⁷ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,”^(A) he said to them. “The Lord is in the right,^(B) and I and my people are in the wrong. ²⁸ Pray^(C) to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go;^(D) you don’t have to stay any longer.”

²⁹ Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands^(E) in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth^(F) is the Lord’s. ³⁰ But I know that you and your officials still do not fear^(G) the Lord God.”

³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing^(A) in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

The Exodus

³¹ During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship^(A) the Lord as you have requested.

⁵ When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled,^(A) Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds^(B) about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” ⁶ So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. ⁷ He took six hundred of the best chariots,^(C) along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. ⁸ The Lord hardened the heart^(D) of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.^{(E) 9} The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses^(F) and chariots, horsemen^[a] and troops^(G)—pursued the Israelites and overtook^(H) them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.^(I)