27. We need to go for a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God as he has ordered us."
28. So Pharaoh said, "I’ll let you go to offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, provided you don’t go too far away and you pray for me."
29. Moses said, "I’ll leave you now, and I’ll pray to the Lord. Tomorrow the swarms of insects will leave Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Just don’t let Pharaoh lie to us again and not let the people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord."
30. So Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
31. The Lord did as Moses asked and removed the swarms of insects from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people. Not one insect remained.
32. But Pharaoh was stubborn once again, and he wouldn’t let the people go.