Then יהוה said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them,
and that you may recount in the hearing of your child and of your child’s child how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I displayed My signs among them—in order that you may know that I am יהוה.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says יהוה, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go that they may worship Me.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
משה
345
ואהרן
262
אלפרעה
386
ויאמרו
263
אליו
47
כהאמר
266
יהוה
26
אלהי
46
העברים
327
עדמתי
524
מאנת
491
לענת
550
מפני
180
שלח
338
עמי
120
ויעבדני
152
Exodus 10:4
Gematria: 2138
כיאםמאןאתהלשלחאתעמיהננימביאמחרארבהבגבלך
For if you refuse to let My people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts on your territory.
They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They shall devour the surviving remnant that was left to you after the hail; and they shall eat away all your trees that grow in the field.
Moreover, they shall fill your palaces and the houses of all your courtiers and of all the Egyptians—something that neither your fathers nor fathers’ fathers have seen from the day they appeared on earth to this day.’” With that he turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.
Pharaoh’s courtiers said to him, “How long shall this one be a snare to us? Let a delegation e., not everyone. Trad. “the men.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. go to worship their God יהוה ! Are you not yet aware that Egypt is lost?”
Translation Notes
*a delegation — Lit. “the [salient] participants,” i.
Moses replied, “We will all go—regardless of social station regardless of social station Heb. bi-n‘areinu u-vi-ziqneinu, taking na‘ar and zaqen as terms of social rank—lit. “with our underlings and with our elders.” NJPS “young and old.” See the Dictionary under na‘ar and “elders.” —we will go with our sons and daughters, our flocks and herds; for we must observe יהוה’s festival.”
Then יהוה said to Moses, “Hold out your arm over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat up all the grasses in the land, whatever the hail has left.”
So Moses held out his rod over the land of Egypt, and יהוה drove an east wind over the land all that day and all night; and when morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.
Locusts invaded all the land of Egypt and settled within all the territory of Egypt in a thick mass; never before had there been so many, nor will there ever be so many again.
They hid all the land from view, and the land was darkened; and they ate up all the grasses of the field and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, so that nothing green was left, of tree or grass of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויכס
96
אתעין
531
כלהארץ
346
ותחשך
734
הארץ
296
ויאכל
67
אתכלעשב
823
הארץ
296
ואת
407
כלפרי
340
העץ
165
אשר
501
הותיר
621
הברד
211
ולאנותר
693
כלירק
360
בעץ
162
ובעשב
380
השדה
314
בכלארץ
343
מצרים
380
Exodus 10:16
Gematria: 2557
וימהרפרעהלקראלמשהולאהרןויאמרחטאתיליהוהאלהיכםולכם
Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I stand guilty before your God יהוה and before you.
יהוה caused a shift to a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and hurled them into the Sea of Reeds; Sea of Reeds Traditionally, but incorrectly, “Red Sea.” not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהפך
121
יהוה
26
רוחים
264
חזק
115
מאד
45
וישא
317
אתהארבה
614
ויתקעהו
597
ימה
55
סוף
146
לא
31
נשאר
551
ארבה
208
אחד
13
בכל
52
גבול
41
מצרים
380
Exodus 10:20
Gematria: 2404
ויחזקיהוהאתלבפרעהולאשלחאתבניישראלפ
But יהוה stiffened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
our own livestock, too, shall go along with us—not a hoof shall remain behind: for we must select from it for the worship of our God יהוה; and we shall not know with what we are to worship יהוה until we arrive there.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגםמקננו
295
ילך
60
עמנו
166
לא
31
תשאר
901
פרסה
345
כי
30
ממנו
136
נקח
158
לעבד
106
אתיהוה
427
אלהינו
102
ואנחנו
121
לאנדע
155
מהנעבד
171
אתיהוה
427
עדבאנו
133
שמה
345
Exodus 10:27
Gematria: 1398
ויחזקיהוהאתלבפרעהולאאבהלשלחם
But יהוה stiffened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not agree to let them go.