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Exodus 10

Exodus 10:4

The Eighth Plague: Locusts · Exodus 10:1–20
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Translations

Modern
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Traditional
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Literal
For if you refuse to send out My people, behold, tomorrow I am bringing the locust into your territory.
Latin
Sin autem resistis, et non vis dimittere eum: ecce ego inducam cras locustam in fines tuos:

Original

Hebrew
English
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Notes

Exodus 10:4

These locusts were a type of grasshopper that migrates. They swarmed from desert areas and could destroy large land areas by eating all the plants.

Exodus 10:1–20

The eighth plague was the plague of locusts (10:4). Enough time had passed since the previous plague for the wheat and spelt to sprout (see 9:32).

The Egyptian god Osiris was highly honored by the people in Egypt. Egyptians believed he went down into the underworld and brought plant life back in the spring. For them, he was connected with renewal and life after death.

This second and climactic attack on plant life showed that even Osiris had no power before the Lord. God alone controls life and death.

New plants that grow in the spring do not give eternal life. True life comes from the Lord, not from nature or from any false god.

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Glossary

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Topics

Animals: Instruments of God's Will Locust: Plague of Plague: Locusts The Locust: One of the Plagues of Egypt