The LORD said unto Moses: go unto Pharao, nevertheless I have hardened
his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I might shew these my
signs amongst them, and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and
of thy son's son, the pageants which I have played in Egypt, and the
miracles which I have done among them: that ye may know how that I am
the LORD. Then Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and said unto him:
Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: how long shall it be, or thou
wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go that they may serve me.
If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring
grasshoppers into thy land, and they shall cover the face of the earth
that it can not be seen, and they shall eat the residue which remaineth
unto you and escaped the hail, and they shall eat all your green trees
upon the field, and they shall fill thy houses and all thy servants'
houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians after such a manner: as
neither thy fathers nor thy fathers fathers have seen, since the time
they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself about,
and went out from Pharao. And Pharao's servants said unto him: How long
shall this fellow thus plague us? {How long shall we be thus evilly
entreated?} Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God, or
else wilt thou see Egypt first destroyed? And then Moses and Aaron were
brought again unto Pharao, and he said unto them: Go and serve the LORD
your God but who are they that shall go? And Moses answered: we must go
with young and old: yea and with our sons and with our daughters, and
with our sheep and oxen must we go. For we must hold a feast unto the
LORD. And he said unto them: shall it be so? The LORD be with you,
should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed, for ye have
some mischief in hand. Nay not so: but go ye that are men and serve the
LORD, for that was your desire. And they thrust them out of Pharao's
presence. And the LORD said unto Moses: Stretch out thine hand over the
land of Egypt for grasshoppers, that they come upon the land of Egypt
and eat all the herbs of the land, and all that the hail left
untouched. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,
and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all
night. And in the morning the east wind brought the grasshoppers, and
the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egypt and lighted in all
quarters of Egypt very grievously: so that before them were there no
such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be. And they covered all
the face of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they
ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruits of the trees which the
hail had left: so that there was no green thing left in the trees and
herbs of the field thorow all the land of Egypt. Then Pharao called for
Moses and Aaron in haste and said: I have sinned against the LORD your
God and against you.
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