The LORD sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.† There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 10:19 in context
Exodus 10:16–22
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
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Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
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Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.
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The LORD sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.† There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
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But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
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The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
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Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.
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