Exodus
Chapter 10
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, because I have made his heart heavy, and the heart of his servants, so that I may set these signs of mine in his midst,
2and so that you tell it in the hearing of your son and your son’s son, how I dealt harshly with Egypt, and my signs that I set among them, and you will know that I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..”
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Hit’allalti is to deal harshly, to make a spectacle of. “I mocked” is the live alternative.
3Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Send my people away, so they can serve me.
4If you refuse to send my people away, look, tomorrow I am bringing locusts into your territory.
5They will cover the surface of the land, and no one will be able to see the land. They will eat what is left of the The small part that is left. that remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree of yours that grows in the field.
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Ein ha-aretz is the eye of the land, its surface. “Surface” is printed.
6They will fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all Egypt, something your fathers and your fathers’ fathers have not seen from the day they were on the ground until this day.” He turned and went out from Pharaoh.
7Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Send the men away, and let them serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is ruined?”
8Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. Who exactly are the ones going?”
9Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds, because we have a feast of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..”
10He said to them, “May God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. be with you the way I would send you and your little ones away. See that evil is in front of you.
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The sentence is a refusal dressed as a wish. It is printed as the wish and the warning that follow, not rewritten as a plain “no.”
11Not so. Go, please, the men, and serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., since that is what you are asking.” And he drove them out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, and let them come up over the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, everything the hail left.”
13Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night. Morning came, and the east wind had carried the locusts.
14The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt, a very heavy mass. Never before had there been locusts like them, and afterward there will not be.
15They covered the surface of the whole land, and the land went dark. They ate every plant of the land and every fruit of the tree that the hail had left. No green was left on tree or field plant in all the land of Egypt.
16Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron and said, “I have done wrong against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and against you.
17Now, please, bear my offense only this time, and plead with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and let him take only this death away from me.”
18He went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
19God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. turned a very strong sea wind. It lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
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Yam suf is the Sea of Reeds. “Red Sea” is a later name and is not printed.
20God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. strengthened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not send the sons of Israel away.
21God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”
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Veyamesh choshekh: a darkness one can feel. “A darkness that can be felt” is printed.
22Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
23No one saw his brother, and no one rose from his place for three days. And all the sons of Israel had light in their settlements.
24Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Only your flocks and your herds stay behind. Your little ones may go with you too.”
25Moses said, “You yourself will also put sacrifices and whole offerings into our hand, and we will make them for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God.
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Olah is a whole offering, the offering that goes up. “Burnt offering” is not printed.
26Our livestock will also go with us. Not a hoof will be left behind, because we will take from them to serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. our God, and we ourselves do not know what we will use to serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. until we arrive there.”
27God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. strengthened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to send them away.
28Pharaoh said to him, “Go away from me. Watch yourself. Do not see my face again, because on the day you see my face you will die.”
29Moses said, “You have spoken right. I will not see your face again.”