EXODUS 10:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.”
And the Lord said to Moses: stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail. The instruction follows immediately after the failed negotiation. God does not ask Moses to try harder, to find better arguments, to revisit the conversation. When the word is refused, the sign follows. The stretch out your hand is Moses' consistent act of obedience preceding the plague. The locusts will devour everything the hail left — the two plagues are sequential, coordinated, complete. What fire does not consume, water does; what hail does not destroy, locusts eat. The comprehensive dismantling of Egypt is architecturally designed, not improvised. Each successive plague fills in what the previous one left incomplete.
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