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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 10
1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to
Pharaoh,for Ihavehardenedhisheart and
the heart of his servants, that I may show
these my signs among them;
2 and that you may tell in the hearing
of your son, and of your son’s son, what
things I have done to Egypt, and my signs
which I have done among them; that you
may know that I am Yahweh.”
3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh,
and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will
you refuse to humble yourself before me?
Let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Or else, if yourefuse to letmy people go,
behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into
your country,
5 and they shall cover the surface of the
earth, so that one won’t be able to see
the earth. They shall eat the residue of
that which has escaped, which remains to
you from the hail, and shall eat every tree
which grows for you out of the field.
6 Your houses shall be filled, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses
of allthe Egyptians, as neither your fathers
nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since
the day that they were on the earth to
this day.’ ” He turned, and went out from
Pharaoh.
7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How
long will this man be a snare to us? Let
the men go, that they may serve Yahweh,
their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is
destroyed?”
8 Moses and Aaron were brought again
to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve
Yahweh your God; but who are those who
will go?”
9 Moses said, “We will go with our young
and with our old. We will go with our sons
and with our daughters, with our flocks
and with our herds; for we must hold a
feast to Yahweh.”
10 He said to them, “Yahweh be with you
if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil
is clearly before your faces.
11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and
serve Yahweh; for thatis what you desire!”
Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s
presence.
12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out
your hand over the land of Egypt for the
locusts, that they may come up on the land
of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land,
even all that the hail has left.”
13 Moses stretched out his rod over the
land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east
wind on the land all that day, and all night;
and when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
14 The locusts went up over all the land
of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of
Egypt. They were very grievous. Before
them there were no such locusts as they,
nor will there ever be again.
15 For they covered the surface of the
whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and
they ate every herb of the land,
and all the fruit of the trees which the hail
had left. There remained nothing green,
either tree or herb of the field, through all
the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned
against Yahwehyour God, and against you.
17 Now therefore please forgive my sin
again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that
hemay also take away fromme thisdeath.”
18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and
prayed to Yahweh.
19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong
west wind, which took up the locusts, and
drove them into the Red Sea.† There remained
not one locust in all the borders of
Egypt.
20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he didn’t let the children of
Israel go.
21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out
your hand toward the sky, that there may
be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
darkness which may be felt.”
22 Moses stretched out his hand toward
the sky, and there was a thick darkness in
all the land of Egypt for three days.
23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody
rose from his place for three days;
but all the children of Israel had light in
their dwellings.
24 Pharaohcalledto Moses, andsaid, “Go,
serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and
your herds stay behind. Let your little ones
also go with you.”
25 Moses said, “You must also give into
our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not
a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we
must take to serve Yahweh our God; and
we don’t know with what we must serve
Yahweh, until we come there.”
27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from
me! Be careful to see my face no more; for
in the day you see my face you shall die!”
29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I
will see your face again no more.”
10:19 “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea ofReeds”
or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of
water connected to it or near it.
Word English Bible
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