Ex 10:21-27
GOD said to Moses: "Stretch your hand to the skies. Let
darkness descend on the land of Egypt — a darkness so dark you can touch
it."
22 Moses stretched out his hand to the skies. Thick darkness
descended on the land of Egypt for three days. 23 Nobody could see anybody. For
three days no one could so much as move. Except for the Israelites: they had
light where they were living.
24 Pharaoh called in Moses: "Go and worship GOD. Leave
your flocks and herds behind. But go ahead and take your children."
25 But Moses said, "You have to let us take our
sacrificial animals and offerings with us so we can sacrifice them in worship
to our GOD. 26 Our livestock has to go with us with not a hoof left behind;
they are part of the worship of our GOD. And we don't know just what will be
needed until we get there."
27 But GOD kept Pharaoh stubborn as ever. He wouldn't agree
to release them.
Ex 111-10
God said to Moses: "I'm going to hit Pharaoh and Egypt
one final time, and then he'll let you go. When he releases you, that will be
the end of Egypt for you; he won't be able to get rid of you fast enough.
2 "So here's what you do. Tell the people to ask, each
man from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor, for things made of
silver and gold." 3 GOD saw to it that the Egyptians liked the people.
Also, Moses was greatly admired by the Egyptians, a respected public figure
among both Pharaoh's servants and the people at large.
4 Then Moses confronted Pharaoh: "GOD's Message: 'At
midnight I will go through Egypt 5 and every firstborn child in Egypt will die,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the
slave girl working at her hand mill. Also the firstborn of animals. 6
Widespread wailing will erupt all over the country, lament such as has never
been and never will be again. 7 But against the Israelites — man, woman, or
animal — there won't be so much as a dog's bark, so that you'll know that GOD
makes a clear distinction between Egypt and Israel.'
8 "Then all these servants of yours will go to their
knees, begging me to leave, 'Leave! You and all the people who follow you!' And
I will most certainly leave."
Moses, seething with anger, left Pharaoh.
9 GOD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's not going to listen to
a thing you say so that the signs of my presence and work are going to multiply
in the land of Egypt."
10 Moses and Aaron had performed all these signs in
Pharaoh's presence, but GOD turned Pharaoh more stubborn than ever — yet again
he refused to release the Israelites from his land.
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