¹⁹ This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, ^(A)making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(A)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(B)they will afflict them four hundred years.

¹⁷ For ^(A)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^(B)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” ¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^(C)hardens.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^(D)who has resisted His will?”

^30 (A)“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for ^(B)the Lord your God ^(C)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

The Eighth Plague: Locusts^(A)

10 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh; ^(B)for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, ^(C)that I may show these signs of Mine before him,

¹⁶ But indeed for ^(A)this purpose I have raised you up, that I may ^(B)show My power in you, and that My ^(C)name may be declared in all the earth.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those ^(A)wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But ^(B)I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

²³ Now it happened ^(A)in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel ^(B)groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and ^(C)their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

¹⁶ and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a ^(A)son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”