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And it came to pass that YHVHa said unto Moses: Go in unto Pharaoh; for he hath hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants; therefore, I will show these my signs before him—
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And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs which I have done among them, that ye may know how that I am YHVH.
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And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him: Thus saith YHVH, Elohima of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me?
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Let my people go, that they may serve me!
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Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring the locustsa into thy coast;
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And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field;
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And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day.
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And Moses turned himself and went out from Pharaoh.
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¶ Now the flax and the barley had been smitten by the mighty storms of YHVH; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled;
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Yet the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up.
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And the servants said unto Pharaoh: How long shall this man be a snare unto us? Let the men go, that they may serve YHVH, their Elohim; knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
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¶ And it came to pass that Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh.
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And Pharaoh said unto them: Go; serve YHVH, your Elohim; but who are they that shall go?
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And 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 unto YHVH.
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And Pharaoh said unto them: Let YHVH be so with you as I will let you go, and your little ones; look to it, for evil is before you.
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Not so; go now, ye that are men, and serve YHVH; for that ye did desire.
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And Moses and Aaron were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh.
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¶ And it came to pass that YHVH said unto Moses: Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
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And Moses stretched forth his roda over the land of Egypt; and YHVH brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very grievous were they.
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Before them there were no such locusts as they; neither after them shall be such, for they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened;
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And they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said: I have sinned against YHVH, your Elohim, and against you;
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Now, therefore, forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat YHVH, your Elohim, that He may take away from me this death only.
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And Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated YHVH.
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And YHVH turned a mighty strong West wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
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But Pharaoh hardened his heart so that he would not let Israel go.