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G-d reveals Himself to Moshe and promises him to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt,

deliver them from slavery, save them, and take them to Himself as His chosen people at Mount Sinài.

G-d declared to Pharaoh, ‘Let My people go…’, and in the absence of an answer-rescript,

He inflicted great executions on the fertile land of Egypt.

Aaron’s staff turns into a serpent, the Nile River flows blood instead of water,

Toads, lice and wild beasts invade Egyptian cities,

Pestilence, boils, hail from heaven – Pharaoh was hardened by the calamity that fell from heaven,

But the tyrant of Egypt did not let the Children of Israel go out of Egypt…