Eighth Plague: The Locusts {Exodus 10:1 - 20}
Robin G (#26)
1 Plays

1. Exodus 10:1 - 2 (NABRE)
Then the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his servants obstinate in order that I may perform these signs of mine among them and that you may recount to your son and grandson how I made a fool of the Egyptians and what signs I did among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.
2. Exodus 10:3 (NABRE)
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me."
3. Exodus 10:4 (NABRE)
"For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory."
4. Exodus 10:5 (NABRE)
"They will cover the surface of the earth, so that the earth itself will not be visible. They will eat up the remnant you saved undamaged from the hail, as well as all the trees that are growing in your fields."
5. Exodus 10:6 (NABRE)
"They will fill your houses and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians—something your parents and your grandparents have not seen from the day they appeared on this soil until today.” With that he turned and left Pharaoh.
6. Exodus 10:7 (NABRE)
But Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will he be a snare for us? Let the people go to serve the Lord, their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is being destroyed?”
7. Exodus 10:8 (NABRE)
So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, who said to them, “Go, serve the Lord, your God. But who exactly will go?”
8. Exodus 10:9 (NABRE)
Moses answered, “With our young and old we must go; with our sons and daughters, with our flocks and herds we must go. It is a pilgrimage feast of the Lord for us.”
9. Exodus 10:10 (NABRE)
“The Lord help you,” Pharaoh replied, “if I let your little ones go with you! Clearly, you have some evil in mind.
10. Exodus 10:11 (NABRE)
"By no means! Just you men go and serve the Lord. After all, that is what you have been asking for.” With that they were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
11. Exodus 10:12 (NABRE)
The Lord then said to Moses: Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon it and eat up all the land’s vegetation, whatever the hail has left.
12. Exodus 10:13 (NABRE)
So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord drove an east wind over the land all that day and all night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
13. Exodus 10:14 (NABRE)
The locusts came up over the whole land of Egypt and settled down over all its territory. Never before had there been such a fierce swarm of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
14. Exodus 10:15 (NABRE)
They covered the surface of the whole land, so that it became black. They ate up all the vegetation in the land and all the fruit of the trees the hail had spared. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in the fields throughout the land of Egypt.
15. Exodus 10:16 (NABRE)
Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord, your God, and against you."
16. Exodus 10:17 (NABRE)
"But now, do forgive me my sin only this once, and pray to the Lord, your God, only to take this death from me.”
17. Exodus 10:18 - 19 (NABRE)
When Moses left Pharaoh, he prayed to the Lord, and the Lord caused the wind to shift to a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts and hurled them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained within the whole territory of Egypt.
18. Exodus 10:20 (NABRE)
Yet the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

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