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God instructed Moses to tell the Israelites that God would free them, make them God's people, and bring them to the Promised Land. But the Israelites would not listen because of their distress and hard labor. The first open portion (??????, petuchah) ends here.
The second reading (?????, aliyah) interjects a partial genealogy of Reuben, Simeon, and Levi, including Moses and his family.
In the third reading (?????, aliyah), God instructed Moses to tell Pharaoh all that God would tell Moses, but Moses protested that he had a speech impediment.
God told how Aaron could cast down his rod and it would turn into a snake, and Aaron did so before Pharaoh.
the frogs departed, but Pharaoh became stubborn and did not let the Israelites leave.
God loosed swarms of insects against the Egyptians, but not Goshen, where the Israelites dwelt.
God instructed Moses to threaten hail such as Egypt had never seen, and to instruct the Egyptians to bring their cattle in from the field so that they would not die
