And thatthoumayesttell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, whatthings I havewrought in Egypt, and my signswhich I havedoneamongthem; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
And Moses and Aaroncame in untoPharaoh, and saidunto him, Thussaith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How longwiltthourefuse to humblethyselfbefore me? let my people go, thatthey may serve me.
And theyshallcover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and theyshall eat the residue of thatwhich is escaped, whichremainethunto you from the hail, and shall eat everytreewhichgroweth for you out of the field:
And theyshallfill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; whichneither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’fathershaveseen, since the day thattheywereupon the earthuntothis day. And he turnedhimself, and went out fromPharaoh.
And Pharaoh’sservantssaidunto him, How longshallthis man be a snareunto us? let the men go, thatthey may serve the LORDtheir God: knowestthou not yet thatEgypt is destroyed?
And Mosessaid, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herdswill we go; for we musthold a feastunto the LORD.
And the LORDsaiduntoMoses, Stretch out thinehandover the land of Egypt for the locusts, thatthey may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat everyherb of the land, even all that the hailhathleft.
And Mosesstretchedforth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORDbrought an eastwindupon the land all that day, and all thatnight; and when it was morning, the eastwindbrought the locusts.
And the locustswent up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: verygrievouswerethey; beforethemtherewere no suchlocusts as they, neitherafterthemshall be such.
For theycovered the face of the wholeearth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat everyherb of the land, and all the fruit of the treeswhich the hail had left: and thereremained not any greenthing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
And the LORDturned a mightystrongwestwind, whichtookaway the locusts, and casttheminto the Red sea; thereremained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Our cattlealsoshall go with us; thereshall not an hoof be leftbehind; for thereofmust we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not withwhat we mustserve the LORD, until we comethither.