Exodus 10:1-23

Cross-references For Better Understanding a Related Topics b Additional Materials c

Summary

• More miraculous signs (judgments) to demonstrate to the Egyptians that they must let Israel leave.

Details

• God will be glorified through Pharaoh. Sovereignty and responsibility linked together.

• Locust swarms; all plant life destroyed. Pharaoh remains hardened in heart (though temporarily relenting).

• "Feelable" darkness in Egyptian territories only.

Scripture

Exodus 10:1-23 – Miraculous signs that affected creation / environment - to warn the people that Moses' message was from God.

• See: Miraculous Events and Ecological Problems

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Exo 10:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, Exo 10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."	God hardened their hearts. Future generations (of Israelites) will know God's power. God's Glory in Judgment
Exo 10:3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.	Pharaoh refused to humble himself before God. (v. 1-3) Once again, the concepts of sovereignty and responsibility are placed parallel to each other, and are treated as equally true. Sovereignty and Responsibility
Exo 10:4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, Exo 10:5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. Exo 10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.' " He turned, and went out from Pharaoh. Exo 10:7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" Exo 10:8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?" Exo 10:9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh." Exo 10:10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. Exo 10:11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. Exo 10:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." Exo 10:13 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. Exo 10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. Exo 10:15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. Exo 10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. Exo 10:17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death." Exo 10:18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. Exo 10:19 Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. Exo 10:20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.	Locust swarms; all plant life destroyed. Pharaoh temporarily relents (probably due to pressure by the people), then changes his mind again.
Exo 10:21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Exo 10:22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. Exo 10:23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.	"Feelable" darkness in Egyptian territories only.

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