10:1And the Lord said to Moses: "Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and that of his servants, so that I may do these signs of mine on him: and that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your grandsons, how often I have crushed the Egyptians, and done my signs among them: and that you may know that I am the Lord." 10:3So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him: "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: 'How long do you refuse to be subjected to me? 10:3Let my people go, so that it may sacrifice to me.
10:4But if you resist, and do not want to let it go: look, I will bring tomorrow the locust into your borders: to cover the surface of the land, so that nothing of it may appear, but that what has been left over by the hail may be eaten: for it will gnaw away all the trees which sprout in the fields. 10:6And they will fill your houses, and those of your servants, and of all the Egyptians, so many as your fathers, and grandfathers, have not seen, since they arose upon the earth, up to the present day.'" 10:6And he turned himself away, and went out from Pharaoh. 10:7But the servants of Pharaoh said to him: "How long shall we suffer this stumbling block?
10:7Let the men go, so that they may sacrifice to the Lord their God; 10:7do you not see that Egypt has perished?" 10:8And they called back Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh: and he said to them: "Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who exactly are those who are going to go?" 10:9Moses said: "With our little ones, and our elders, we will go, with sons and daughters, with sheep and herds: for it is the solemn feast of the Lord our God." 10:10And Pharaoh answered: "So may the Lord be with you, as I shall let you go, and your little ones: to whom is it doubtful that you are planning most wickedly?
10:11It will not be so, but go, the men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this is what you yourselves too have asked for." 10:11And at once they were thrown out of the sight of Pharaoh. 10:12But the Lord said to Moses: "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locust, so that it may come up upon it, and devour every plant which has been left over by the hail." 10:13And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought in a burning wind all that day and night: and when morning had come, the burning wind raised the locusts.
10:14And they came up upon all the land of Egypt: and settled in all the borders of the Egyptians, beyond number, such as had not been before that time, nor will be afterwards. 10:15And they covered the whole surface of the land, laying waste all things. 10:15Therefore the plant of the land was devoured, and whatever of fruits was on the trees, which the hail had left: and nothing green at all was left on the trees and on the plants of the land, in all Egypt. 10:16For which reason Pharaoh in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
10:17But now forgive me the sin this time too, and ask the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death." 10:18And Moses, having gone out from the sight of Pharaoh, prayed to the Lord. 10:19And he made a very violent wind blow from the west, and, the locust having been seized, threw it into the Red Sea: there did not remain even one in all the borders of Egypt. 10:20And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, nor did he let the sons of Israel go. 10:21But the Lord said to Moses: "Stretch out your hand into the sky: and let there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it can be felt."
10:22And Moses stretched out his hand into the sky: and there came to be horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 10:23No one saw his brother, nor moved himself from the place in which he was: but wherever the sons of Israel were living, there was light. 10:24And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: "Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let only your sheep and herds remain, let your little ones go with you." 10:25Moses said: "You will also give us victims and burnt offerings, which we may offer to the Lord our God. 10:26All the flocks will go with us; 10:26not a hoof of them will remain: for they are necessary for the worship of the Lord our God: especially since we do not know what ought to be sacrificed, until we arrive at the place itself."
10:27But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he refused to let them go. 10:28And Pharaoh said to Moses: "Withdraw from me, and beware that you do not see my face any more: on whatever day you appear to me, you will die." 10:29Moses answered: "So it will be as you have spoken: I will not see your face any more."