Bible Time

¹AND Yahvah said to Moses, Go into Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may perform these signs among them, ²That you may relate in the presence of your son and of your son's son the things which I have done to the Egyptians and the signs which I have performed among them, that you may know that I am Yahvah. ³And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says Yahvah God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to fear me? Let my people go that they may serve me. ⁴Else, if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts on all your domain; ⁵And they will cover the face of the land so that men cannot see the ground; and they will eat the residue of that which is left to you from the hail and will eat all the trees which have budded for you in the field; ⁶And they will fill your houses and the houses of your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they were on the earth even to this day. And they turned, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. ⁷And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long will we suffer this disaster? Let the men go that they may serve Yahvah their God; do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed? ⁸So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go, serve before Yahvah your God; but who are those who are going? ⁹And Moses said to him, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds will we go, for it is a festival of Yahvah for all of us. ¹⁰And Pharaoh said to them, Let Yahvah be with you, but when I let you and your little ones go, look to it; perhaps you have evil intent. ¹¹Do not let it be so; go now, the older men, and serve before Yahvah; for it is the rest that you desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

¹²And Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come on the land of Egypt and eat the herbs of the land, even all that the hail has left. ¹³And Moses lifted up his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahvah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. ¹⁴And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the domain of the Egyptians; it was a great swarm; neither before them were such swarms of locusts as these, nor after them will be such swarms. ¹⁵For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened; and they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained no leaf on the trees nor grass in the field, through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁶Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said to them, I have sinned against Yahvah your God and against you. ¹⁷Now therefore, forgive me my fault this time also, and pray before Yahvah your God that he may remove from me this death. ¹⁸And Moses went out from the presence of Pharaoh and prayed before Yahvah. ¹⁹And Yahvah turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the domain of Egypt. ²⁰But Yahvah hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

²¹Then Yahvah said to Moses, Lift up your hand toward the heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even thick darkness. ²²And Moses lifted up his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt 3 days; ²³They did not see one another, nor rose any from his place for 3 days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. ²⁴And Pharaoh called to Moses and said to him, Go, serve before Yahvah your God; only let your flocks and herds remain here; let your little ones also go with you. ²⁵Then Moses said to Pharaoh, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice to Yahvah our God. ²⁶Our cattle will also go with us; there will not be one hoof left behind; for must we take them to serve before Yahvah our God; and we do not know what else we must offer to Yahvah until we come there. ²⁷But Yahvah hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not let them go. ²⁸And Pharaoh said to Moses, Get away from here, take care of yourself, do not try to see my face again, ²⁹And Moses said, You have spoken well, I will not try to see your face any longer.