Old Testament

Exodus 10-11

^10:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, ^10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

^10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. ^10:4Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, ^10:5and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. ^10:6Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

^10:7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

^10:8Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"

^10:9Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

^10:10He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. ^10:11Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

^10:12Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." ^10:13Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. ^10:14The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. ^10:15For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. ^10:16Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. ^10:17Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

^10:18He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. ^10:19Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. ^10:20But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

^10:21Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." ^10:22Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ^10:23They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

^10:24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

^10:25Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. ^10:26Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don't know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

^10:27But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go. ^10:28Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

^10:29Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

^11:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. ^11:2Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." ^11:3Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

^11:4Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, ^11:5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle. ^11:6There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more. ^11:7But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. ^11:8All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

^11:9Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt." ^11:10Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.

New Testament

Mark 9

^9:1He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death, until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."

^9:2After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. ^9:3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. ^9:4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

^9:5Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." ^9:6For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.

^9:7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

^9:8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

^9:9As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ^9:10They kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising from the dead should mean.

^9:11They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

^9:12He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? ^9:13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

^9:14Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. ^9:15Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him. ^9:16He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

^9:17One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; ^9:18and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

^9:19He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

^9:20They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

^9:21He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?"

He said, "From childhood. ^9:22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."

^9:23Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

^9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"

^9:25When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"

^9:26Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead." ^9:27But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

^9:28When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" ^9:29He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."

^9:30They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it. ^9:31For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."

^9:32But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

^9:33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"

^9:34But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

^9:35He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." ^9:36He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, ^9:37"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

^9:38John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."

^9:39But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. ^9:40For whoever is not against us is on our side. ^9:41For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most assuredly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. ^9:42Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. ^9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, ^9:44'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' ^9:45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched -- ^9:46'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' ^9:47If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, ^9:48'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' ^9:49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. ^9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."