1   And our Lord said to Moyses Goe in to Pharao: for ^note I haue indurate his hart, and the hart of his seruantes: that I may worke these my signes in him,

2   and thou maist tel in the eares of thy sonne, and of thy nephewes, how often I haue broken the Ægyptians, & wrought my signes in them: and you may know that I am the Lord.

3   Moyses therfore and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus faith the Lord the God of the Hebrewes: Til when wilt thou not be

Plagues of Ægypt. subiect to me? dismisse my people, to sacrifice vnto me.

4   But if thou resist, and wilt not dismisse them: behold I wil bring in to morow ^note the locust into thy coastes:

5   which may couer the face of the earth, that nothing therof appeare, but that which the haile hath left may be eaten: for it shal gnawe al trees that spring in the fieldes.

6   And they shal fil thy houses, and the houses of thy seruantes, and of al the Ægyptians: such a number as thy fathers haue not seene, nor grand-fathers, since they arose vpon the earth, vntil this present day. And he turned him selfe away, and went forth from Pharao.

7   And Pharaoes seruantes said to him: How long shal we endure this scandal? Dismisse the men, to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Doest thou not see that Ægypt is vndone?

8   And they called back Moyses, and Aaron vnto Pharao: who said to them: Goe, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shal goe?

9   Moyses said: With our young and old we wil goe, with our sonnes and daughters, with our sheepe and heardes: for it is the solemnitie of the Lord our God.

10   And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shal dismisse you, and your litle ones: who doubteth but that ^note you intend very wickedly?

11   It shal not so be: but goe ye men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this your selues also desired. And immediatly they were cast out from Pharaoes sight.

12   And our Lord said to Moyses: Strech forth thy hand vpon the Land of Ægypt vnto the locust, that it come vpon it, and deuoure euerie herbe that remained after the haile.

13   And Moyses stretched forth his rodde vpon the Land of Ægypt: and our Lord brought in a burning wind al that day, & night: and when it was morning, the burning winde raised the locustes:

14   which came vp ouer the whole Land of Ægypt: and sate in al the coastes of the Ægyptians innumerable, the like as had not bene before that time, nor shal be afterward.

15   And they couered the whole face of the earth, wasting al thinges. Therfore the grasse of the earth was deuoured, and what fruites soeuer on the trees, which the haile had left: there was also nothing at al left that was greene in the trees, and in the herbes of the earth, in al Ægypt.

16   For the which cause Pharao in hast called Moyses and Aaron, and said to them: I haue sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

17   But now forgeue me my sinne this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.

Plagues of Ægypt.

18   And Moyses going forth from Pharaoes sight, prayed to our Lord:

19   who made a very vehement wind to blow from the west, and taking the locustes it threw them into the Red sea: there remained not so much as one in al the coastes of Ægypt.

20   And our Lord did indurate Pharaoes hart, neither did he dismisse the children of Israel.

21   And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch for thy hand toward heauen: and be there ^notedarkenesse vpon the Land of Ægypt so thicke, that it be palpable.

22   And Moyses stretched forth his hand toward heauen: and there was made horrible darkenesse in the whole Land of Ægypt three dayes.

23   No man saw his brother, nor moued himselfe out of the place where he was: but wheresoeuer the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.

25   And Pharao called Moyses and Aaron, and said to them: Goe sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheepe only, and heardes remaine, let your litle ones goe with you. Moyses said: Hostes also & holocaustes thou shalt geue to vs, which we may offer to the Lord our God.

26   Al the flockes shal goe with vs: there shal ^note not a hoofe remaine of them: the which are necessarie vnto the seruice of the Lord our God: especially wheras we know not what must be offered, til we come to the very place.

27   And our Lord did indurate Pharaoes hart, and he would not dismisse them.

28   And Pharro said to Moyses: Gette thee from me, and beware thou see not my face any more: in what day soeuer thou shalt come in my sight, thou shalt dye.

29   Moyses answered: So shal it be as thou hast spoken, I wil not see thy face anymore.

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