1 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Go in to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart and the heart of his servants heavy, in order to perform these my signs in his midst, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
2 GLT and so that you may proclaim in the ears of your son and the son of your son that I toyed with Egypt, and my signs which I performed among them— and you will know that I am Yahweh.” BSB BSB: and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
3 GLT And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him,“Thus says Yahweh, God of the Hebrews:‘Until when will you refuse to be humble from my face? Let my people go, and they will serve me. BSB BSB: So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
4 GLT For if you refuse to let my people go, behold me, I am about to bring locust within your borders tomorrow. BSB BSB: But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
5 GLT And it will cover the sight of the land, and none will be able to see the land. And it will devour the remnant of whatever escaped, of whatever is left to you from the hail. And it will devour every tree growing for you from the field. BSB BSB: They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
6 GLT And they will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, which your fathers had never seen, nor the fathers of your fathers, from the day they came to be on the earth until this day.’” And he turned around and left from being with Pharaoh. BSB BSB: They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.
7 GLT And the servants of Pharaoh said to him,“Until when will this be a trap to us? Let the men go and they will serve Yahweh their God. Do you not understand yet that Egypt has perished?” BSB BSB: Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”
8 GLT And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them,“Go serve Yahweh your God. Who and who shall go?” BSB BSB: So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”
9 GLT And Moses said,“We shall go with our young and with our old. We shall go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and our herds, because the festival of Yahweh is for us.” BSB BSB: “We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
10 GLT And he said to them,“May Yahweh be with you in the same way as I will let you and your children go. See, for evil is before your faces! BSB BSB: Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.
11 GLT Not so! You may go, the men, and serve Yahweh, because this is what you are seeking.” And he drove them from the face of Pharaoh. BSB BSB: No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with the locust, and let it rise up over the land of Egypt, and let it devour all of the plants of the land, everything which the hail had spared.” BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
13 GLT And Moses reached out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind over the land all that day and all night. The morning was, and the east wind had brought the locust. BSB BSB: So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
14 GLT And the locust rose up over all the land of Egypt and came to rest everywhere within the borders of Egypt. They were extremely numerous. Never before was there such locust like it, and nothing will be like it after. BSB BSB: The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
15 GLT And it covered the sight of all of the land, and the land was dark. And it devoured all of the plants of the land and all of the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. And not any of the greenery remained in a tree or in a plant of the field in all of the land of Egypt. BSB BSB: They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
16 GLT And Pharaoh hurried to call for Moses and for Aaron and said,“I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you. BSB BSB: Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
17 GLT And now, please bear my sin, just this once, and pray to Yahweh your God and let him take this death only away from me.” BSB BSB: Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”
18 GLT And he went out from being with Pharaoh, and he prayed to Yahweh. BSB BSB: So Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the LORD.
19 GLT And Yahweh turned a very strong sea wind, and it carried away the locust, and it drove it into the Sea of Reeds; not one locust remained in all of the territory of Egypt. BSB BSB: And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
20 GLT And Yahweh strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the sons of Israel go. BSB BSB: But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
21 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let it become dark over the land of Egypt, and darkness will feel.” BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
22 GLT And Moses stretched out his hand above the heavens, and dark darkness was in all of the land of Egypt for three days. BSB BSB: So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
23 GLT No man could see his brother, and no man rose from his place for three days. But for all the sons of Israel, there was light in their dwelling- places. BSB BSB: No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
24 GLT And Pharaoh called to Moses, and he said,“Go serve Yahweh. Only your flocks and your herds must remain behind; however, your children will go with you.” BSB BSB: Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”
25 GLT And Moses said,“Also you, you must give in our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings, and we will do to Yahweh our God. BSB BSB: But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.
26 GLT And even our livestock shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for we shall take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And as for us, we will not know with what we must serve Yahweh until we arrive there.” BSB BSB: Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”
27 GLT And Yahweh strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not agree to let them go. BSB BSB: But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.
28 GLT And Pharaoh said to him,“Get away from me! Watch yourself; you shall not again see my face; because in the day of your seeing my face, you shall die.” BSB BSB: “Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”
29 GLT And Moses said,“Just as you say, I will not ever see your face again.” BSB BSB: “As you say,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”