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Text -- Exodus 10:7-29 (NET)
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10:7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God . Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed ?”
10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh , and he said to them, “Go , serve the Lord your God . Exactly who is going with you?”
10:9 Moses said , “We will go with our young and our old , with our sons and our daughters , and with our sheep and our cattle we will go , because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the Lord .”
10:10 He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents ! Watch out ! Trouble is right in front of you!
10:11 No ! Go , you men only, and serve the Lord , for that is what you want .” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence .
10:12 The Lord said to Moses , “Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts , that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground , everything that the hail has left .”
10:13 So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt , and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night . The morning came , and the east wind had brought up the locusts !
10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt . It was very severe ; there had been no locusts like them before , nor will there be such ever again .
10:15 They covered the surface of all the ground , so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left . Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt .
10:16 Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said , “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!
10:17 So now , forgive my sin this time only , and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”
10:18 Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord ,
10:19 and the Lord turned a very strong west wind , and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea . Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt .
10:20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart , and he did not release the Israelites .
The Ninth Blow: Darkness
10:21 The Lord said to Moses , “Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt , a darkness so thick it can be felt .”
10:22 So Moses extended his hand toward heaven , and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days .
10:23 No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days . But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived .
10:24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said , “Go , serve the Lord – only your flocks and herds will be detained . Even your families may go with you.”
10:25 But Moses said , “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God ?
10:26 Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the Lord our God . Until we arrive there , we do not know what we must use to serve the Lord .”
10:27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart , and he was not willing to release them.
10:28 Pharaoh said to him, “Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again , for when you see my face you will die !”
10:29 Moses said , “As you wish ! I will not see your face again .”
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Plague |
Lies and Deceits |
Judgments |
PLAGUES OF EGYPT |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Egyptians |
Quotations and Allusions |
PLAGUES, THE TEN |
Rulers |
Sin |
Hypocrisy |
Animals |
Instability |
Intercession |
Darkness |
Red Sea |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 1 |
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NET Notes -> Exo 10:7; Exo 10:7; Exo 10:7; Exo 10:8; Exo 10:9; Exo 10:10; Exo 10:10; Exo 10:10; Exo 10:10; Exo 10:10; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:11; Exo 10:12; Exo 10:12; Exo 10:13; Exo 10:13; Exo 10:13; Exo 10:13; Exo 10:13; Exo 10:14; Exo 10:14; Exo 10:14; Exo 10:15; Exo 10:15; Exo 10:15; Exo 10:16; Exo 10:16; Exo 10:16; Exo 10:17; Exo 10:17; Exo 10:18; Exo 10:18; Exo 10:19; Exo 10:19; Exo 10:19; Exo 10:21; Exo 10:21; Exo 10:21; Exo 10:21; Exo 10:22; Exo 10:22; Exo 10:23; Exo 10:23; Exo 10:24; Exo 10:25; Exo 10:25; Exo 10:25; Exo 10:26; Exo 10:26; Exo 10:26; Exo 10:26; Exo 10:28; Exo 10:28; Exo 10:28; Exo 10:29; Exo 10:29
NET Notes: Exo 10:7 With the adverb טֶרֶם (terem), the imperfect tense receives a present sense: “Do you not know?” (See GKC 481...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:10 The “trouble” or “evil” that is before them could refer to the evil that they are devising – the attempt to escape from ...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:11 The verb is the Piel preterite, third person masculine singular, meaning “and he drove them out.” But “Pharaoh” cannot be the ...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:12 The noun עֵשֶּׂב (’esev) normally would indicate cultivated grains, but in this context seems to indic...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:13 The verb here is a past perfect, indicting that the locusts had arrived before the day came.
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NET Notes: Exo 10:16 The severity of the plague prompted Pharaoh to confess his sin against Yahweh and them, now in much stronger terms than before. He also wants forgiven...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:17 “Death” is a metonymy that names the effect for the cause. If the locusts are left in the land it will be death to everything that grows.
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NET Notes: Exo 10:19 The name Red Sea is currently applied to the sea west of the Arabian Peninsula. The northern fingers of this body of water extend along the west and e...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:21 The Hebrew term מוּשׁ (mush) means “to feel.” The literal rendering would be “so that one may feel dar...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:22 S. R. Driver says, “The darkness was no doubt occasioned really by a sand-storm, produced by the hot electrical wind…which blows in interm...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:23 The perfect tense in this context requires the somewhat rare classification of a potential perfect.
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NET Notes: Exo 10:24 Or “dependents.” The term is often translated “your little ones,” but as mentioned before (10:10), this expression in these pa...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:26 Moses gives an angry but firm reply to Pharaoh’s attempt to control Israel; he makes it clear that he has no intention of leaving any pledge wit...
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