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6  The Plagues of Egypt. Exodus viii. 1. Now Moses and Aaron went as the Lord commanded them, and told the people all that the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did wonders before them. And Moses and Aaron went in and said to King Pharaoh, “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.'” And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey his voicovoice [sic] to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go." And from that day Pharaoh made the children of Israel work harder than they had ever done before, desiring that they might no longer have straw given them to makomake [sic] their bricks of, but that they should from that time be obliged to find their own straw, and at the same time get done as much