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4-5 If you refuse, tomorrow I will cover the entire nation with a thick layer of locusts so that you won’t even be able to see the ground, and they will finish destroying everything that escaped the hail. They will fill your palace, and the homes of your officials, and all the houses of Egypt. Never in the history of Egypt has there been a plague like this will be!’” Then Moses stalked out.

The court officials now came to Pharaoh and asked him, “Are you going to destroy us completely? Don’t you know even yet that all Egypt lies in ruins? Let the men go and serve Jehovah their God!”

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They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left(A) after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.(B) They will fill your houses(C) and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’”(D) Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare(E) to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”(F)

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