But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”

So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

“I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house – the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

And Moses said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.