Thematic Bible
Exodus 10:1 (show verse)
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart {insensitive} and the heart of his servants in order to put these signs of mine in his midst,
Exodus 10:2 (show verse)
so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild} that I dealt harshly with [the] Egyptians and [so that you will tell about] my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I [am] Yahweh."
Exodus 10:3 (show verse)
And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.
Exodus 10:4 (show verse)
But if you [are] refusing to release my people, look, I [am] about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Exodus 10:5 (show verse)
And they will cover the surface of the land, and no one will be able to see the land, and they will eat the remainder of what is left--what is left over for you from the hail--and they will eat every sprouting tree [belonging] to you from the field.
Exodus 10:6 (show verse)
And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, [something] that your fathers and {your grandfathers} never saw from the day they were on the earth until this day.'" And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus 10:7 (show verse)
And the servants of Pharaoh said to him, "Until when will this be a snare for us? Release the men so that they may serve Yahweh their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
Exodus 10:8 (show verse)
And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Serve Yahweh your God. {Who are the ones going}?
Exodus 10:9 (show verse)
And Moses said, "With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and goats and with our cattle we will go because [it is] the feast of Yahweh for us."
Exodus 10:10 (show verse)
And he said to them, "Let Yahweh be thus with you [as soon] as I release you and your dependents. See that evil is before your faces.
Exodus 10:11 (show verse)
{No indeed}; [just] the men go and serve Yahweh, since this [is what] you [are] seeking." And he drove them out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Exodus 10:12 (show verse)
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with the locusts so that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and let them eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail left behind."
Exodus 10:13 (show verse)
And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind into the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts.
Exodus 10:14 (show verse)
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and they settled in all the territory of Egypt, very {severe}. Before it there were not locusts like them, nor will there be after it.
Exodus 10:15 (show verse)
And they covered the surface of all the land, and the land was dark [with them], and they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left, and no green was left in the trees nor in the vegetation of the field in all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16 (show verse)
And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.
Exodus 10:17 (show verse)
And now forgive my sin surely this time, and pray to Yahweh your God so that he may only remove from me this death."
Exodus 10:18 (show verse)
And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to Yahweh.
Exodus 10:19 (show verse)
And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind} and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea}, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
Exodus 10:20 (show verse)
And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}.
Exodus 10:21 (show verse)
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."
Exodus 10:22 (show verse)
And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.
Exodus 10:23 (show verse)
No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were} [for] three days, but there was light for the {Israelites} in their dwellings.
Exodus 10:24 (show verse)
And Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependents may also go with you."
Exodus 10:25 (show verse)
And Moses said, "Even [if] you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer [them] to Yahweh our God,
Exodus 10:26 (show verse)
our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know [with] what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there."
Exodus 10:27 (show verse)
And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to release them.
Exodus 10:28 (show verse)
And Pharaoh said to him, "Go from me. {Be careful} not to see my face again, because on the day of your seeing my face you will die."
Exodus 10:29 (show verse)
And Moses said, "{That is right}. {I will not again see your face}."