Exodus 10:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹Then the Lord sent a strong west wind^[a] that swept the locusts into the Red Sea.^[b] Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt, ²⁰but the Lord made the king so stubborn that he still refused to let the Israelites go.

Darkness

²¹^(A) The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch your arm toward the sky, and everything will be covered with darkness thick enough to touch.”

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Footnotes

10.19 west wind: The Hebrew text has “wind from the sea,” referring to the Mediterranean Sea (see verse 13).
10.19 Red Sea: Hebrew yam suph, here referring to the Gulf of Suez, since the term is extended to include the northwestern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at 13.18).