Exodus 10Book 2 of 66 · 29 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them.
  2. And that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your son's son how I dealt severely with the Egyptians and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.
  3. So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship and serve Me.
  4. Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts into your territory.
  5. They shall cover the face of the land so that no one will be able to see the ground, and they shall devour the remainder of what escaped and is left to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.
  6. They will fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians—something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth to this day, and he turned and went out from Pharaoh's presence.
  7. Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
  8. So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. But who exactly are the ones that are going?"
  9. Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a festival to the LORD."
  10. Then he said to them, "The LORD had better be with you when I let you and your little ones go! Beware, for you have some evil purpose in mind.
  11. Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you requested, and they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
  12. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and devour every plant of the land—all that the hail has left."
  13. So Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night, and when it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
  14. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled on all the territory of Egypt in dense swarms; previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.
  15. For they covered the face of the whole land so that the land was darkened, and they devoured every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, so there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
  16. Then Pharaoh hastily called for Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you."
  17. Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and plead with the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.
  18. So he went out from Pharaoh's presence and earnestly entreated the LORD.
  19. And the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea, and not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
  20. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart again, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
  21. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt."
  22. So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout all the land of Egypt for three days.
  23. They did not see one another, nor did anyone move from his place for three days, but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  24. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you."
  25. But Moses said, "You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
  26. Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we ourselves do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.
  27. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart once more, and he was unwilling to let them go.
  28. Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Beware and see my face no more, for on the day you see my face you shall die!"
  29. So Moses said, "You are right. I will never see your face again."