Bible Verses

The Lord said to Moses: “Stretch out your hand and bring locusts to the land of Egypt. Let them eat every plant in the land, everything left after the hail.”

No! Only the men will offer sacrifice to the Lord if that is what you want!” And they were driven away from Pharaoh’s presence.

Pharaoh said: “May the Lord help you if ever I let you go with your little ones! Oh no! It’s clear you are bent on evil.

Moses said: “We shall go with our young and our old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and our cattle, for it is the great feast of the Lord that we are to celebrate.”

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said: “Go! Worship the Lord, your God. But exactly who will go?”

Pharaoh’s ministers said to him: “For how long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go and worship the Lord, their God. Don’t you realize that Egypt is ruined?”

They will fill your house and the houses of your ministers and all the houses in Egypt, something your fathers and their fathers before them have never seen from ancient times to this day.’” Having said this, Moses turned away and left Pharaoh’s presence.

and they will completely cover the land’s surface. They will devour what was left after the hail and every tree in the fields.

If you refuse to let my people go, I will bring locusts into your country,

Moses went with Aaron and said to Pharaoh: “This is the word of the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go and worship me.