¹³ Pharaoh’s heart, however, remained hard. He still refused to listen, just as the Lord had predicted.

²¹ And the Lord told Moses, “When you arrive back in Egypt, go to Pharaoh and perform all the miracles I have empowered you to do. But I will harden his heart so he will refuse to let the people go.

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that relief had come, he became stubborn.^[a] He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.

¹¹ “Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing. ¹² They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven’s Armies was so angry with them.

¹³ You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.

⁵ But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

²⁸ Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

²⁷ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart once more, and he would not let them go.

²⁰ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart again, so he refused to let the people go.

A Plague of Locusts

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Return to Pharaoh and make your demands again. I have made him and his officials stubborn^[a] so I can display my miraculous signs among them.