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For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt."

Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord . The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord 's.

So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord , and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.

So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field,

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?"

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left."

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord .

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

So Moses said, "Thus says the Lord : ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

It was a night of watching by the Lord , to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord ." And they did so.