Chapter 10
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart heavy and the heart of his servants, in order to place these my signs in his midst."
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And so that you may recount in the ears of your son and your grandson what I did to the Egyptians and my signs that I put among them, you shall know that I am the LORD.
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Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Send my people away so that they may serve me.’”
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For if you refuse to let my people go, I am bringing locusts into your territory tomorrow.
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and it will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. It will eat the remainder of what escaped and what was left for you from the hail, and it will eat every tree growing for you in the field.
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And they will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, which neither your fathers nor the fathers of your fathers have seen, from the day they were on the ground until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
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Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this be a snare to us? Let the men go and let them serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
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And he caused Moses and Aaron to return to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God—who and who are the ones going?"
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And Moses said, "We will go with our young men and our old men, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we have a festival of the LORD."
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And he said to them, "May it be so! The LORD be with you as I send you and your little ones. See that evil is before your faces!"
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"Not so; go now, you men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are seeking." And he drove them out from Pharaoh's presence.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with locusts, and let them go up over the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, everything that the hail left."
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And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD drove the east wind in the land all that day and all the night. The morning came, and the east wind carried the locusts.
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The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled across the entire territory of Egypt in great numbers. Never before had there been such locusts as these, nor will there ever be again.
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It covered the surface of all the land, and the land was darkened. It ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
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Pharaoh hurried and called Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you."
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Now please forgive my sin just this once, and intercede with the LORD your God, that he may remove this death from me.
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He went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.
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And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, and it lifted up the locust and cast it into the Red Sea; not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
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And the LORD strengthened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.