15 For they acovered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they bate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called afor Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, b“I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
17 Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and aentreat the Lord your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”
18 So he awent out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord.
19 And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them ainto the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.
20 But the Lord ahardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,1 darkness which may even be felt.”
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was athick darkness in all the land of Egypt bthree days.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in People's Commentary (NT) for Exodus 10:17.
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