Exodus 10:12-29 ▼

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.

23 They could not see, each man his brother, and no man rose from his place for three days. And for all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

24 And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve YHWH. Only your? flocks and your? herds shall stay behind; also your? little ones shall go with you?.”

25 And Moses said, “You also must give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings, and we shall make them to YHWH our God.

26 And also our livestock shall go with us. Not a hoof shall remain, for from it we shall take to serve YHWH our God, and we do not know with what we shall serve YHWH until we arrive there.”

27 And YHWH strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he was not willing to send them out.

28 And Pharaoh said to him, “Go away from me! Take heed to yourself—do not again see my face! For in the day you see my face, you shall die!”

29 And Moses said, “Thus you have spoken! I will not ever again see your face!”