Exodus 10:1-22 ▼

1 And YHWH said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have made heavy his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may set these signs of Mine within him,

2 and so that you may recount in the ears of your son and the son of your son how I have dealt severely with Egypt, and My signs that I have set among them, and you? shall know that I am YHWH.”

3 And Moses came in—and Aaron—to Pharaoh, and they said to him, “Thus says YHWH God of the Hebrews, ‘Until when will you refuse to humble yourself before My face? Send out My people, that they may serve Me.

4 For if you refuse to send out My people, behold, tomorrow I am bringing the locust into your territory.

5 And it shall cover the eye of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. And it shall eat the remnant of what is left, what remains for you? from the hail, and it shall eat every tree that grows for you? from the field.

6 And they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt—which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, from the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

7 And the servants of Pharaoh said to him, “Until when shall this one be a snare to us? Send out the men, that they may serve YHWH their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt has perished?”

8 And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve YHWH your? God! Who and who are the ones going?”

9 And Moses said, “With our young and with our old we will go, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go, for it is a feast of YHWH for us.”

10 And he said to them, “Thus may YHWH be with you? when I send out you?, and your? little ones. See, for evil is before your? faces.

11 Not so! Go now, the men, and serve YHWH. For that is what you? are seeking.” And they were driven out from the face of Pharaoh.

12 And YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locust, and they shall go up upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land—all that the hail has left.”

13 And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and YHWH drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night. And when it was the morning, the east wind brought the locust.

14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; before them there had never been such a locust as it, and after it there shall never be such.

15 And it covered the eye of all the land, and the land was darkened. And it ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. And there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.

16 And Pharaoh hurried to call for Moses and for Aaron and said, “I have sinned against YHWH your? God and against you?.

17 And now forgive, please, my sin only this once, and pray to YHWH your? God He may take away from me only this death.”

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to YHWH.

19 And YHWH turned a very mighty sea wind, and it lifted up the locust and blew it into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.

20 And YHWH strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not send out the sons of Israel.

21 And YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there shall be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

22 And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.