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Text -- Exodus 10:1-17 (NET)
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The Eighth Blow: Locusts
10:1 The Lord said to Moses , “Go to Pharaoh , for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants , in order to display these signs of mine before him,
10:2 and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord .”
10:3 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews : ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
10:4 But if you refuse to release my people , I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow .
10:5 They will cover the surface of the earth , so that you will be unable to see the ground . They will eat the remainder of what escaped – what is left over for you– from the hail , and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field .
10:6 They will fill your houses , the houses of your servants , and all the houses of Egypt , such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day !’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh .
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.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Locust |
Moses |
Plague |
Egyptians |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
PLAGUES OF EGYPT |
PLAGUES, THE TEN |
Lies and Deceits |
Animals |
Judgments |
Rulers |
Sin |
Quotations and Allusions |
Hypocrisy |
Instability |
Miracles |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Government |
Conviction |
Eye |
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NET Notes -> Exo 10:1; Exo 10:1; Exo 10:1; Exo 10:1; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:2; Exo 10:3; Exo 10:3; Exo 10:4; Exo 10:4; Exo 10:4; Exo 10:5; Exo 10:5; Exo 10:5; Exo 10:5; Exo 10:5; Exo 10:6; Exo 10:6; Exo 10:6; Exo 10:6; 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
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NET Notes: Exo 10:3 The clause is built on the use of the infinitive construct to express the direct object of the verb – it answers the question of what Pharaoh wa...
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NET Notes: Exo 10:6 Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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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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