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and they will blanket the ground. There will be so many that you will not be able to see the ground! The locusts will devour every crop the hail did not destroy, and their horde will strip every tree that grows in your fields! They will fill every corner of your houses, your servants’ houses, and all the Egyptians’ houses. This will be a spectacle that none of your ancestors have ever seen—never from the day that they were born until this present day.”

Starvation for the majority of Egyptians is becoming a real possibility. How far they have come from Joseph’s day when Egypt fed the world!

Moses then turned and left Pharaoh.

Servants (to Pharaoh): How much longer will you let this man trap us? Why don’t you just release the people and let them go serve the Eternal their God? Look around you! Don’t you see that Egypt is in ruins?

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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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