10:1  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,

10:2  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 have pre-eminence as the LORD."

10:3  Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

10:4  'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

10:5  'They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one can see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped--what remains to you from the hail--and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

10:6  'Then your houses shall fill and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.'" And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

10:7  Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man remain a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt has fallen into destruction?"

10:8  So officials summoned Moses and Aaron back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God! Who will go with you?"

10:9  Moses said, "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."

10:10  Then he said to them, "Thus may the LORD remain with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil resides in your mind.

10:11  "Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that you desire." So officials drove them out of Pharaoh's presence.

10:12  Then the LORD 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 plant of the land, even all that the hail has left."

10:13  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it became morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

10:14  The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they seemed very numerous. There had never appeared so many locusts, nor would there appear so many again.

10:15  For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land became dark; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green remained on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

10:16  Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, " I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

10:17  "Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the LORD your God, that He would only remove this death from me."

10:18  He went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the LORD.

10:19  So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

10:20  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.

10:21  Then the LORD said to Moses, " Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may come darkness over the land of Egypt, even a darkness which people may feel."

10:22  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and a thick darkness spread over all the land of Egypt for three days.

10:23  They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

10:24  Then Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds stay behind Even your little ones may go with you."

10:25  But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.

10:26  "Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall remain behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the LORD our God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the LORD."

10:27  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.

10:28  Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

10:29  Moses said, "You speak correctly; I shall never see your face again!"