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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may performthesesigns of Mine among them,
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and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how* I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the LORD."
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Moses and Aaronwent to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thussays the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'Howlong* will you refuse to humble yourself before* Me? Let My peoplego, that they may serve Me.
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'They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped -what is left to you from the hail -and they will eateverytree which sprouts for you out of the field.
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'Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something whichneither your fathersnor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earthuntilthisday.' " And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
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Pharaoh'sservantssaid to him, "Howlong* will this man be a snare to us? Let the mengo, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
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Mosessaid, "We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."
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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Stretch out your handover the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eateveryplant of the land, even all that the hail has left."
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So Mosesstretched out his staffover the land of Egypt, and the LORDdirected an eastwind on the landall that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the eastwindbrought the locusts.
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The locustscame up overall the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they were verynumerous. There had neverbeenso many locusts, nor would there be so many again.
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For they covered the surface of the wholeland, so that the land was darkened; and they ateeveryplant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing*green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.
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He went out from Pharaoh and madesupplication to the LORD.
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So the LORDshifted the wind to a verystrongwestwind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red*Sea; not onelocust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
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Then the LORDsaid to Moses, "Stretch out your handtoward the sky, that there may be darknessover the land of Egypt, even a darkness which may be felt."
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"Therefore, our livestocktoo shall go with us; not a hoof shall be leftbehind, for we shall takesome of them to serve the LORD our God. And until we arrivethere, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the LORD."