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.
15. For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
17. Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the Lord your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
18. Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the Lord.
19. The Lord turned an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Sea of Suf. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
20. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
22. Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
23. They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24. Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve the Lord. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
25. Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.