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Exodus 10:11The Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:21Exod 3:20Exod 7:13-14Rom 9:171 Sam 4:8Exod 14:17-18Exod 15:14-15Exod 7:4Exod 9:16Exod 9:27
Exodus 10:22and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:3Deut 4:9Deut 6:20-22Exod 13:14Exod 7:17Ps 44:1Ps 78:5-6Eph 6:4Exod 12:26-27Exod 13:8-9
Exodus 10:33So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has said: ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:61 Kgs 21:29Jas 4:10Heb 12:25Jer 13:18Rom 2:41 Kgs 18:212 Chr 33:122 Chr 33:192 Chr 34:27
Exodus 10:44But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 9:3Joel 2:25Exod 11:4-5Exod 8:10Exod 8:23Exod 9:18Exod 9:5Joel 1:4-7Joel 2:2-11Prov 30:27
Exodus 10:55They 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:32Joel 1:4Joel 2:25
Exodus 10:66They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:21Exod 8:3Exod 10:11Exod 10:14-15Exod 11:6Exod 11:8Exod 9:24Heb 11:27Joel 2:2
Exodus 10:77Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:21Eccl 7:26Exod 23:33Josh 23:131 Cor 7:35Exod 8:19Isa 14:20Isa 51:9Jer 48:4Jer 51:8
Exodus 10:88So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. Exactly who is going with you?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:24Exod 10:16Exod 12:31Exod 8:8
Exodus 10:99Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 5:7-8Deut 31:12-13Exod 5:1Exod 3:18Eccl 12:1Eph 6:4Exod 13:6Exod 5:3Exod 8:25-28Gen 50:8
Exodus 10:1010He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:15Exod 12:30-31Exod 13:21Lam 3:37
Exodus 10:1111No! Go, you men only, and serve the Lord, for that is what you want.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:28Ps 119:69Exod 5:4Ps 52:3-4
Exodus 10:1212The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 7:19Exod 10:4-5
Exodus 10:1313So 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!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:21Gen 41:6Jonah 1:4Jonah 4:8Matt 8:27Ps 105:34Ps 107:25-28Ps 148:8Ps 78:26
Exodus 10:1414The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:461 Kgs 8:37Deut 28:42Exod 10:5-6Exod 11:6Joel 1:2-4Joel 2:1-11Ps 105:34-35Rev 9:3-7
Exodus 10:1515They covered the surface of all the ground so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:5Joel 1:6-7Joel 2:1-11Joel 2:25Ps 105:34-35Ps 78:46
Exodus 10:1616Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:271 Sam 15:241 Sam 15:301 Sam 26:212 Sam 19:20Job 34:31-32Matt 27:4Num 21:7Num 22:34Prov 28:13
Exodus 10:1717So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:8Exod 9:281 Kgs 13:61 Sam 15:252 Cor 1:102 Kgs 4:40Acts 8:24Isa 26:16Rom 15:30
Exodus 10:1818Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:28-30Exod 8:9Luke 6:28Matt 5:44
Exodus 10:1919and the Lord turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:20Exod 13:18Exod 15:4Heb 11:29
Exodus 10:2020But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:21Exod 11:10Deut 2:302 Thess 2:11-12Exod 7:13-14Exod 9:12Isa 6:9-10John 12:39-40Rom 9:18
Exodus 10:2121The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:172 Pet 2:4Jude 1:6Luke 23:44Rev 16:10-11Deut 28:29Exod 9:22Isa 8:21-22Mark 15:33Matt 27:45
Exodus 10:2222So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:28Rev 16:10Amos 4:13Deut 4:11Deut 5:22Exod 20:21Joel 2:2Joel 2:31
Exodus 10:2323No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:221 Pet 2:9Exod 9:4Isa 42:16Col 1:13Exod 14:20Exod 9:26Isa 60:1-3Isa 65:13-14Josh 24:7
Exodus 10:2424Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord —only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:8-10Exod 8:28Exod 9:28Gen 34:23
Exodus 10:2525But Moses said, “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 29:1-46Lev 16:9Lev 9:22Exod 36:1-38
Exodus 10:2626Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the Lord our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:5Acts 2:44-45Exod 12:32Heb 11:8Hos 5:6Isa 23:18Isa 60:5-10Prov 3:9Zech 14:20
Exodus 10:2727But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:20Exod 4:21Exod 14:4Exod 14:8Exod 10:1Rev 16:10-11Rev 9:20
Exodus 10:2828Pharaoh said to him, “Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 16:102 Chr 25:16Amos 7:13
Exodus 10:2929Moses said, “As you wish! I will not see your face again.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:27Exod 12:30-31Exod 11:4-8
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