Exodus 10

1Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;Cross-references: Ex 3:20 · Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:4 · Ex 7:13 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 9:27 · +8 more

2and 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.”Cross-references: Ex 7:17 · Ex 12:26 · Ex 13:8 · Ex 13:14 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:20 · +8 more

3Moses 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.Cross-references: Ex 9:17 · Ex 16:28 · Num 14:27 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 21:29 · 2Chr 7:14 · +16 more

4Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,Cross-references: Ex 8:10 · Ex 8:23 · Ex 9:5 · Ex 9:18 · Ex 11:4 · Prov 30:27 · +4 more

5and 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.Cross-references: Ex 9:32 · Joel 1:4 · Joel 2:25

6Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the 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.Cross-references: Ex 8:3 · Ex 8:21 · Ex 9:24 · Ex 10:11 · Ex 10:14 · Ex 11:6 · +3 more

7Pharaoh’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?”Cross-references: Ex 8:19 · Ex 23:33 · Josh 23:13 · 1Sam 18:21 · Ps 107:34 · Prov 29:6 · +7 more

8Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”Cross-references: Ex 8:8 · Ex 10:16 · Ex 10:24 · Ex 12:31

9Moses 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.”Cross-references: Gen 50:8 · Ex 3:18 · Ex 5:1 · Ex 5:3 · Ex 8:25 · Ex 13:6 · +8 more

10He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.Cross-references: Ex 12:30 · Ex 13:21 · 2Chr 32:15 · Lam 3:37

11Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.Cross-references: Ex 5:4 · Ex 10:28 · Ps 52:3 · Ps 119:69

12Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Ex 10:4

13Moses 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:6 · Ex 14:21 · Ps 78:26 · Ps 105:34 · Ps 107:25 · Ps 148:8 · +3 more

14The 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.Cross-references: Ex 10:5 · Ex 11:6 · Deut 28:42 · 1Ki 8:37 · Ps 78:46 · Ps 105:34 · +3 more

15For 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.Cross-references: Ex 10:5 · Ps 78:46 · Ps 105:34 · Joel 1:6 · Joel 2:1 · Joel 2:25

16Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.Cross-references: Ex 9:27 · Num 21:7 · Num 22:34 · 1Sam 15:24 · 1Sam 15:30 · 1Sam 26:21 · +4 more

17Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”Cross-references: Ex 8:8 · Ex 9:28 · 1Sam 15:25 · 1Ki 13:6 · 2Ki 4:40 · Isa 26:16 · +3 more

18Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 8:9 · Ex 8:28 · Matt 5:44 · Luke 6:28

19Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 13:18 · Ex 15:4 · Joel 2:20 · Heb 11:29

20But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:13 · Ex 9:12 · Ex 11:10 · Deut 2:30 · Isa 6:9 · +3 more

21Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: Ex 9:22 · Deut 28:29 · Ps 35:6 · Ps 78:49 · Ps 105:28 · Prov 4:19 · +11 more

22Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.Cross-references: Ex 20:21 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 5:22 · Ps 105:28 · Joel 2:2 · Joel 2:31 · +2 more

23They 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.Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Ex 9:4 · Ex 9:26 · Ex 14:20 · Josh 24:7 · Isa 42:16 · +5 more

24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”Cross-references: Gen 34:23 · Ex 8:28 · Ex 9:28 · Ex 10:8

25Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.Cross-references: Ex 29:1 · Ex 36:1 · Lev 9:22 · Lev 16:9

26Our 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.”Cross-references: Ex 12:32 · Prov 3:9 · Isa 23:18 · Isa 60:5 · Hos 5:6 · Zech 14:20 · +3 more

27But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 10:1 · Ex 10:20 · Ex 14:4 · Ex 14:8 · Rev 9:20 · +1 more

28Pharaoh 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!”Cross-references: 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 25:16 · Amos 7:13

29Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”Cross-references: Ex 11:4 · Ex 12:30 · Heb 11:27