1 And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh; for I have hardened his heart. And the heart of his servants, to set these My signs among them; 2 and that thou mayest relate before thy son and the son of thy son the miracles which I wrought in Mizraim and the signs that I did set among them, that ye may know that I am the Lord.

3 And Mosheh and Aharon entered unto Pharoh, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Jehudaee, Until now thou hast obstinately refused to humble thyself before Me; send My people away, that they may serve Me. 4 For if thou refuse to release My people, behold, tomorrow I will bring the locust into thy borders, 5 And he shall cover the eye of the sun of the earth, (or, shall hide the sun (which is) the eye of the earth,) so that it will not be possible to see the ground; and he will devour the residue which hath been spared (saved) and that hath been reserved to you from the hail, and will devour every tree which groweth up for you from the field; 6 and they shall fill thy house, and the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all the Mizraee, which thy fathers have not seen, nor the fathers of thy fathers, from the day they were upon the earth until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharoh.

7 And the servants of Pharoh said to him, How long shall this man be an injury (stumbling-block) to us? Send the men away, that they may serve before the Lord their God. Knowest thou not yet that Mizraim hath perished? 8 And Mosheh and Aharon were made to return unto Pharoh; and he said to them; Go, serve before the Lord your God: (but) who and who shall go? 9 And Mosheh said, With our young ones and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen, will we go; for we have a feast before the Lord. 10 And he said to them, So be the Word of the Lord in your help when I send you away and your little ones: beware, for the evil that you are thinking to do will be turned against your faces. 11 Not so: but let the men go and serve before the Lord; for it was that which you demanded. And they were driven from before Pharoh.

12 And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand over the land of Mizraim, that the locusts may come, and go up on the land of Mizraim, and devour every herb of the earth, even all which the hail hath left. 13 And Mosheh stretched forth his rod upon the land of Mizraim, and the Lord led an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night; at morn the east wind bare the locust. 14 And the locust came up on all the land of Mizraim, and abode in all the boundary of Mizraim exceedingly strong. Before him the locust had never been like him nor afterward will he be so; 15 And he covered the eye of the sun of all the earth, and the earth was darkened; and he devoured every herb of the ground, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there did not remain any green on the trees nor herbage of the field in all the land of Mizraim. 16 And Pharoh made haste to call Mosheh and Aharon, and said, I have sinned before the Lord your God, and you. 17 And now, forgive my sin only this time, and intercede before the Lord your God, that He may remove from me only this death. 18 And they went out from Pharoh, and prayed before the Lord. 19 And the Lord turned a west wind exceedingly strong, and it carried the locust and drave him into the sea of Suph, nor did one locust remain in all the border of Mizraim. 20 Yet the heart of Pharoh was hardened, and he would not send the sons of Israel away.

21 And the Lord said to Mosheh, Uplift thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be darkness upon the land of Mizraim after the darkness of the night hath passed away. 22 And Mosheh lifted up his hand towards heaven, and there was darkness of darkness in all the land of Mizraim three days: 23 A man saw not his brother, nor did any man rise up from his place, three days. Yet, all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharoh called Mosheh and said, Go, serve before the Lord; only leave your sheep and your oxen, your little ones also may go with you. 25 But Mosheh said, Thou must give into our hands also the holy victims and holocausts, that we may serve before the Lord our God. 26 Our cattle too shall go with us, and there shall not remain any thereof; for of it we must take to serve the Lord our God, and we know not with what we have to do service before Him until we come thither. 27 But the Lord hardened Pharoh’s heart, and he was not willing to send them away. 28 And Pharoh said to him, Go from me. Beware for thyself. See my face no more; for in the day that thou seest my face thou shalt die. 29 And Mosheh said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy face no more.