4. Moses went to the king and said:I have come to let you know what the Lord is going to do. About midnight he will go through the land of Egypt,
5. and wherever he goes, the firstborn son in every family will die. Your own son will die, and so will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the firstborn males of cattle will die.
6. Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again.
7. But there won't be any need for the Israelites to cry. Things will be so quiet that not even a dog will be heard barking. Then you Egyptians will know that the Lord is good to the Israelites, even while he punishes you.