3 Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you not humble yourself before me?' let my people go to serve me;

4 And if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts upon thy province.

5 it shall cover the face of the earth, so that it shall not be possible to see the earth, and it shall eat of you that is left of the hail. And he shall devour all the trees that are in your field;

6 And he shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and all the houses of all the Egyptians, which thy fathers have not seen, nor the fathers of thy fathers, from the day that they dwelt on the earth, even unto this day. [Moses] turned and left Pharaoh.

7 Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, 'How long shall he torment us?' let these people go, let them serve the Lord their God; Do you not yet see that Egypt is perishing?

8 And they brought Moses and Aaron back to Pharaoh, and said to them, 'Go, do the service of the LORD your God; Who and who will go?

9 And Moses said, 'Let us go with our little children and our old men, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and with our oxen, for we have a feast of the LORD [our God].

10 And Pharaoh said to them, 'Let it be so, the Lord be with you!' I am ready to let you go: but why with children? You see, you have a bad intention!

11 No, go ye men alone, and serve the Lord, as ye have asked. And they drove them out from Pharaoh.

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand against the land of Egypt, and let the locusts come upon the land of Egypt, and eat up all the grass of the earth, all that is left of the hail.'

13 And Moses stretched out his rod against the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land, which continued all that day and all night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.

14 And the locusts fell upon all the land of Egypt, and lay down in all the land of Egypt in great multitudes: there was no locust like this before, neither shall there be such a locust after this;

15 And she covered the face of all the earth, so that the earth was not seen, and she ate up all the grass of the earth, and all the fruit of the trees that was left out of the hail, and there was no verdant left either on the trees or on the grass of the field in all the land of Egypt.

16 Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron, and said, 'I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you;