And he went out from Pharaoh Without the city, as he had been wont to do: and entreated the Lord; prayed to him that he would remove the plague of the locusts from the land.
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Shemot 10:18 In-Context
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Then Pharaoh called for Moshe and Aharon in haste; and he said, chatati (I have sinned) against Hashem Eloheichem, and against you.
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Therefore forgive, now, my sin only this once, and entreat Hashem Eloheichem, that He would only take away from me this mavet.
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And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Hashem.
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And Hashem turned a west ruach chazak me’od, which took away the arbeh, and cast them into the Yam Suf; there remained not one arbeh in all the borders of Mitzrayim.
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But Hashem hardened lev Pharaoh, so that he would not let the Bnei Yisroel go.
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