“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

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

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

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!”

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around confused in the land – the desert has closed in on them.’

In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”

When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

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.

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!