출애굽기(Exodus) 10장

 

 

출애굽기(Exodus) 10장

 

1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to

Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart

and the hearts of his officials so that

I may perform these miraculous signs

of mine among them

 

2. that you may tell your children and

grandchildren how I dealt harshly with

the Egyptians and how I performed

my signs among them, and that you

may know that I am the LORD."

 

3. So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh

and said to him, "This is what the LORD,

the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long

will you refuse to humble yourself before

me? Let my people go, so that they may

worship me.

 

4. If you refuse to let them go, I will bring

locusts into your country tomorrow.

 

5. They will cover the face of the ground

so that it cannot be seen. They will

devour what little you have left after

the hail, including every tree that is

growing in your fields.

 

6. They will fill your houses and those of

all your officials and all the Egyptians- -

something neither your fathers nor your

forefathers have ever seen from the day

they settled in this land till now.'" Then

Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

 

7. Pharaoh's officials said to him, "How

long will this man be a snare to us?

Let the people go, so that they may

worship the LORD their God. Do you

not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?"

 

8. Then Moses and Aaron were brought

back to Pharaoh. "Go, worship the LORD

your God," he said. "But just who will be

going?"

 

9. Moses answered, "We will go with our

young and old, with our sons and

daughters, and with our flocks and

herds, because we are to celebrate

a festival to the LORD."

 

10. Pharaoh said, "The LORD be with you

- -if I let you go, along with your women

and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.

 

11. No! Have only the men go; and

worship the LORD, since that's what

you have been asking for." Then

Moses and Aaron were driven out

of Pharaoh's presence.

 

12. And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch

out your hand over Egypt so that locusts

will swarm over the land and devour

everything growing in the fields,

everything left by the hail."

 

13. So Moses stretched out his staff over

Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind

blow across the land all that day and all

that night. By morning the wind had

brought the locusts;

 

14. they invaded all Egypt and settled

down in every area of the country in

great numbers. Never before had there

been such a plague of locusts, nor will

there ever be again.

 

15. They covered all the ground until it

was black.

They devoured all that was leftafter the hail--everything growing in thefields and the fruit on the trees. Nothinggreen remained on tree or plant in allthe land of Egypt.

 

16. Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and

Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the

LORD your God and against you.

 

17. Now forgive my sin once more and

pray to the LORD your God to take this

deadly plague away from me."

 

18. Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed

to the LORD.

 

19. And the LORD changed the wind to a

very strong west wind, which caught up

the locusts and carried them into the Red

Sea. Not a locust was left anywhere in

Egypt.

 

20. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's

heart, and he would not let the

Israelites go.

 

21. hen the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch

out your handtoward theskyso that

darkness will spread over Egypt--darkness

that can be felt."

 

22. So Moses stretched out his hand

toward the sky, and total darkness

covered all Egypt for three days.

 

23. So one could see anyone else or leave

his place for three days. Yet all the Israelites

had light in the places where they lived.

 

24. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and

said, "Go, worship the LORD. Even your

women and children may go with you;

only leave your flocks and herds behind."

 

25. But Moses said, "You must allow us

to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to

present to the LORD our God.

 

26. Our livestock too must go with us; not

a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use

some of them in worshiping the LORD our

God, and until we get there we will not

know what we are to use to worship

the LORD."

 

27. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's

heart, and he was not willing to let

them go.

 

28. Pharaoh said to Moses, "Get out of

my sight! Make sure you do not appear

before me again! The day you see my

face you will die."

 

29. "Just as you say," Moses replied, "I

will never appear before you again."