16. Then Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
17. Please forgive my sin one more time. Pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”
18. Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
19. Then the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind. It picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt.
20. But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he did not let the Israelites go.
21. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky, and a darkness ⌊so thick⌋ that it can be felt will come over Egypt.”
22. Moses lifted his hand toward the sky, and throughout Egypt there was total darkness for three days.
23. People couldn’t see each other, and no one went anywhere for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they were living.