²⁷ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,”^(A) he said to them. “The Lord is in the right,^(B) and I and my people are in the wrong. ²⁸ Pray^(C) to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go;^(D) you don’t have to stay any longer.”

³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. ³⁵ So Pharaoh’s heart^(A) was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.

The Plague of Locusts

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart^(B) and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs^(C) of mine among them ² that you may tell your children^(D) and grandchildren how I dealt harshly^(E) with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”^(F)