Exodus 10:16-29 ▼

16 And Pharaoh hurries to call for Moses and for Aaron and says, “I have sinned against your God YHWH, and against you,

17 and now, please bear with my sin, only this time, and make supplication to your God YHWH, that He may turn aside from off me only this death.”

18 And he goes out from Pharaoh, and makes supplication to YHWH,

19 and YHWH turns a very strong sea wind, and it lifts up the locust, and blows it into the Red Sea—there has not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;

20 and YHWH strengthens the heart of Pharaoh, and he has not sent the sons of Israel away.

21 And YHWH says to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.”

22 And Moses stretches out his hand toward the heavens, and there is darkness—thick darkness in all the land of Egypt [for] three days;

23 they have not seen one another, and none has risen from his place [for] three days; but there has been light for all the sons of Israel in their dwellings.

24 And Pharaoh calls to Moses and says, “Go, serve YHWH, only your flock and your herd are stayed, your infants also go with you”;

25 and Moses says, “You also give sacrifices and burnt-offerings in our hand, and we have prepared for our God YHWH;

26 and also our livestock go with us—there is not left a hoof, for we take from it to serve our God YHWH; and we do not know how we serve YHWH until our going there.”

27 And YHWH strengthens the heart of Pharaoh, and he has not been willing to send them away;

28 and Pharaoh says to him, “Go from me, take heed to yourself, do not add to see my face, for in the day you see my face you die”;

29 and Moses says, “You have spoken correctly, I do not add to see your face anymore.”