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.
16
Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
17
Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the LORD your God only to remove this death from me."
18
So he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.
19
And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
20
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
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