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78 Book of Exodus

Pharao; and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
Lord your God: who are they that shall go? 20 And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart,
9 Moses said: We will go with our young and neither did he let the children of Israel go.
old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep 21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out
and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our thy hand towards heaven: and may there be
God. darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that
10 And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with it may be felt.
you, as I shall let you and your children go: who 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand to-
can doubt but that you intend some great evil? wards heaven: and there came horrible darkness
11 It shall not be so. but go ye men only, in all the land of Egypt for three days.
and sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also 23 No man saw his brother, nor moved himself
desired. And immediately they were cast out out of the place where he was: but wheresoever
from Pharao’s presence. the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.
12 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth 24 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and
thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let your
that it come upon it, and devour every herb that sheep only, and herds remain, let your children
is left after the hail. go with you.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the 25 Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacri-
land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning fices and burnt-offerings, to the Lord our God.
wind all that day, and night; and when it was 26 All the flocks shall go with us; there shall
morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary
14 And they came up over the whole land of for the service of the Lord our God: especially as
Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyp- we know not what must be offered, till we come
tians, innumerable, the like as had not been be- to the very place.
fore that time, nor shall be hereafter.
27 And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart,
15 And they covered the whole face of the and he would not let them go.
earth, wasting all things. And the grass of the
28 And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from
earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were
me, and beware thou see not my face any more:
on the trees, which the hail had left; and there
in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight,
remained not any thing that was green on the
thou shalt die.
trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all Egypt.
29 Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast
16 Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses
spoken, I will not see thy face anymore.
and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned
against the Lord your God, and against you.
17 But now forgive me my sin this time also, Chapter 11
and pray to the Lord your God, that he take
away from me this death. And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague
19 And he made a very strong wind to blow more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and
from the west, and it took the locusts and cast after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.
them into the Red Sea: there remained not so 2 Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that