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For if by now I had sent forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been wiped out from the earth.

But, indeed, for this reason I have caused you to stand, in order to show you My power and in order to recount My name through all the earth.

Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time; Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

Entreat Yahweh, for God's thunder and hail are too much; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear Yahweh God."

(Now the flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

But the wheat and the spelt were not struck down, for they are late-ripening.)

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants with firmness, that I may set these signs of Mine among them,

For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what remains for you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

And Moses said, "We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for it is a feast of Yahweh for us."

Then he said to them, "Thus may Yahweh be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! See, for evil is on your faces.

Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve Yahweh, for that is what you are seeking." So they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

Then Yahweh 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 plant of the land, all that the hail has left remaining."

For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.

So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their places of habitation.

Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall remain behind, for we shall take some of them to serve Yahweh our God. And until we come there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve Yahweh."

Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!"