5. and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
6. Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
7. Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
8. Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God; but who are those who will go?”
9. Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”
10. He said to them, “The Lord be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
11. Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the Lord; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12. 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 herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
13. Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14. The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.