Exodus 10:12-20

12Then Adonai said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so they may come up onto Egypt and eat every plant in the land—everything the hail has left.”

13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Adonai brought an east wind over the land all that day and all night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and rested on the entire territory of Egypt. So dense—there was nothing like it before them, nor will there ever be again.

15For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant in the land and all the fruit from the trees that the hail had left. No green thing remained, not a tree or a plant of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

16Then Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against Adonai your God and against you.

17Now forgive my sin, only this once, please! So pray to Adonai your God—just so He would take this death away from me!”

18So he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Adonai.

19Then Adonai turned the wind from the west, very strong, and it carried off the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

20But Adonai hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let Bnei-Yisrael go.