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    Exodus 10

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    For three days Egypt became a darkness that could be felt, nobody moved, and yet every Israelite dwelling had light. Then Pharaoh tried to negotiate over livestock, as though the locusts had left him a particularly troublesome bargaining position.

    Locusts, repentance, and a very short memoryvv. 1–20

    The LORD sends Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh with a demand: let the people go, all of them, for worship. Pharaoh’s officials, surveying Egypt’s ruin, urge him to yield; Pharaoh instead proposes that only the men go. Moses refuses the arrangement: sons, daughters, flocks, and herds must all attend the feast. The locusts arrive in a black swarm, eating what the hail left behind. Pharaoh quickly confesses and asks for the plague to be removed. Moses appeals to the LORD, the locusts are blown into the Red Sea, and Pharaoh’s heart hardens again. The relief is astonishingly brief.

    The darkness and the last bargainvv. 21–29

    Moses stretches out his hand, and a darkness settles over Egypt for three days: no one sees anyone else, and no one leaves his place. The Israelites, rather inconveniently for the darkness, have light in their dwellings. Pharaoh then permits the little ones to go, but still keeps the flocks and herds behind. Moses will not leave even one hoof; the sacrifices cannot be arranged until they arrive. Pharaoh ends the interview with a death threat, and Moses answers that their faces will not meet again.

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    1. Exod 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,

    2. Exod 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

    3. Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

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

    5. Exod 10:5They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

    6. Exod 10:6They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

    7. Exod 10:7Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”

    8. Exod 10:8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”

    9. Exod 10:9“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

    10. Exod 10:10Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.

    11. Exod 10:11No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

    12. Exod 10:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

    13. Exod 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

    14. Exod 10:14The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.

    15. Exod 10:15They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

    16. Exod 10:16Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

    17. Exod 10:17Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

    18. Exod 10:18So Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the LORD.

    19. Exod 10:19And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

    20. Exod 10:20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

    21. Exod 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”

    22. Exod 10:22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

    23. Exod 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

    24. Exod 10:24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

    25. Exod 10:25But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

    26. Exod 10:26Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”

    27. Exod 10:27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

    28. Exod 10:28“Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

    29. Exod 10:29“As you say,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”

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    • 2Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
    • 2Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
    • 31 Peter 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
    • 2Deuteronomy 6:20–22In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
    • 31 Kings 21:29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
    • 3James 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
    • 17Exodus 8:8Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
    • 22Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
    • 29Hebrews 11:27By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
    • 2Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 71 Samuel 18:21“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
    • 9Exodus 5:1After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
    • 9Deuteronomy 31:12–13Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
    • 91 Corinthians 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
    • 14Psalms 78:46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
    • 16Exodus 9:27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

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