²³Then Israel came to Egypt;
   Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
²⁴And the Lord made his people very fruitful,
   and made them stronger than their foes,
²⁵whose hearts he then turned to hate his people,
   to deal craftily with his servants.

²⁶He sent his servant Moses,
   and Aaron whom he had chosen.
²⁷They performed his signs among them,
   and miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸He sent darkness, and made the land dark;
   they rebelled^* against his words.
²⁹He turned their waters into blood,
   and caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,
   even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
   and gnats throughout their country.
³²He gave them hail for rain,
   and lightning that flashed through their land.
³³He struck their vines and fig trees,
   and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came,
   and young locusts without number;
³⁵they devoured all the vegetation in their land,
   and ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
   the first issue of all their strength.

³⁷Then he brought Israel^* out with silver and gold,
   and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,
   for dread of them had fallen upon it.
³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,
   and fire to give light by night.
⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails,
   and gave them food from heaven in abundance.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
   it flowed through the desert like a river.
⁴²For he remembered his holy promise,
   and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³So he brought his people out with joy,
   his chosen ones with singing.
⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations,
   and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,
⁴⁵that they might keep his statutes
   and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!