Êxodo 10

1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them; 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, 5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"

9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces. 11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left." 13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again. 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. 19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.*10:19 "Red Sea" is the translation for the Hebrew "Yam Suf", which could be more literally translated "Sea of Reeds" or "Sea of Cattails". It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt. 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." 22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God. 26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there."

27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go. 28 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"

29 Moses said, "You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more."

Ngā Māwhitiwhiti

1 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Haere ki a Parao; kua whakapakeke hoki ahau i tōna ngākau, i te ngākau hoki o ōna tāngata, kia whakakite ai ahau i ēnei tohu āku ki tōna aroaro, 2 kia kōrero ai hoki koe ki ngā taringa o tāu tama, o te tama hoki a tāu tama, i tāku i mahi ai ki Īhipa, i āku tohu hoki i meatia e ahau i roto i a rātou – kia mōhio ai koutou ko Ihowā ahau."

3 Ā, haere ana a Mohi rāua ko Ārona ki a Parao, mea ana ki a ia, "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o ngā Hiperu, ‘Kia pēhea te roa ōu kāhore nei e ngohengohe ki tōku aroaro? Tukua tāku iwi kia haere, kia mahi ki ahau. 4 Ko tēnei, ka kore koe e rongo ki te tuku i tāku iwi, nanā, āpōpō ahau kawe mai ai i te māwhitiwhiti ki tōu rohe. 5 Ā, e kapi i a rātou te mata o te whenua, e kore anō e āhei te kite i te whenua; ā, e kai rātou i ngā toenga i mahue, i toe mā koutou i te whatu, e kai hoki rātou i ngā rākau katoa e tupu ana mā koutou i te māra. 6 Ā, e kī i a rātou ōu whare, me ngā whare o ōu tāngata katoa, me ngā whare o ngā Īhipiana katoa; he mea kīhai nei i kitea e ōu mātua, e ngā mātua rānei o ōu mātua, o te rā iho anō i noho ai rātou ki te whenua ā moroki noa nei.’ " Ā, tahuri ana ia, haere atu ana i a Parao.

7 Ā, ka mea ngā tāngata a Parao ki a ia, "Kia pēhea te roa o tēnei tangata ka waiho nei hei rore ki a tātou? Tukua ngā tāngata ki te mahi ki a Ihowā, ki tō rātou Atua. Kīanō koe i mōhio noa kua ngaro a Īhipa?"

8 Nā, ka whakahokia a Mohi rāua ko Ārona ki a Parao; ā, ka mea ia ki a rāua, "Haere, e mahi ki a Ihowā ki tō koutou Atua; ko wai mā oti e haere?"

9 Ā, ka mea a Mohi, "E haere rā mātou me ā mātou taitamariki, me ō mātou koroheke, me ā mātou tama, me ā mātou tamāhine, e haere me ā mātou hipi, me ā mātou kau; he hākari hoki tā mātou ki a Ihowā."

10 Nā, ka mea ia ki a rāua, "Kia pēnā te noho o Ihowā ki a koutou, me ahau ka tuku nei i a koutou me ā koutou pōtiki. Mā koutou e titiro; he kino hoki kei mua i a koutou. 11 Kāhore rā hoki! Haere e ngā tāne, e mahi ki a Ihowā; ko tā koutou hoki tēnā i whai nā." Ā, peia ana rāua i te aroaro o Parao.

12 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Totoro atu tōu ringaringa ki te whenua o Īhipa mō te māwhitiwhiti kia puta ki te whenua o Īhipa, ki te kai i ngā otaota katoa o te whenua, i ngā mea katoa i toe i te whatu."

13 Nā, ka toro atu te tokotoko a Mohi ki runga i te whenua o Īhipa, ā, kua puta he hau i a Ihowā, he marangai, ki te whenua, ā, pau katoa taua rangi, pau katoa taua pō; ā, huaki ake te ata, nā, kua kawea mai ngā māwhitiwhiti e te marangai. 14 Ā, puta ake ana te māwhitiwhiti ki te whenua katoa o Īhipa, ā, tau iho ki ngā rohe katoa o Īhipa, he nanakia rawa; kāhore he māwhitiwhiti ō mua atu hei rite mō ēnei, e kore anō hoki e rite ā muri ake nei. 15 Ngaro ana hoki i a rātou te mata o te whenua katoa, pōuri ana te whenua; ā, kainga ake e rātou ngā otaota katoa o te whenua, me ngā hua katoa o ngā rākau i toe i te whatu. Kīhai i mahue tētahi tupu o ngā rākau, o ngā otaota rānei o te māra, i te whenua katoa o Īhipa.

16 Nā, ka hohoro a Parao te karanga ki a Mohi rāua ko Ārona ka mea, "Kua hara ahau ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, ki a kōrua hoki. 17 Nā, whakarērea tōku hara, heoi rawa anō ko tō tēnei tāima, ā, īnoi ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, kia tangohia atu e ia ko tēnei mate anake i ahau."

18 Ā, mawehe ana ia i a Parao, īnoi ana ki a Ihowā. 19 Nā, whakatakā ana e Ihowā he hauāuru nui rawa, nāna i kāhaki atu ngā māwhitiwhiti, i whiu ki te Moana Whero; kīhai i toe tētahi māwhitiwhiti i ngā rohe katoa o Īhipa. 20 Otiia whakapakeke ana a Ihowā i te ngākau o Parao, ā, kīhai ia i tuku i ngā tama a Īharaira.

He Pōuri Kerekere

21 Ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Totoro ake tōu ringaringa ki te rangi, kia whai pōuri ai ki te whenua o Īhipa, he pōuri e hakiri mai ana ki te ringa." 22 Nā, ka toro atu te ringa o Mohi ki te rangi, ā, kua pōuri kerekere i te whenua katoa o Īhipa, e toru ngā rā. 23 Kāhore tētahi i kite i tētahi, kīhai anō hoki i whakatika atu tētahi i tōna wāhi i ngā rā e toru. Tēnā ko ngā tama a Īharaira, mārama ana ō rātou nā nohoanga.

24 Nā, ka karanga a Parao ki a Mohi, ka mea, "Haere, e mahi ki a Ihowā, otiia me waiho ā koutou hipi me ā koutou kau. Ko ā koutou tamariki nonohi hoki me haere tahi i a koutou."

25 Ā, ka mea a Mohi, "Me hōmai anō e koe ki a mātou he patunga tapu, he tahunga tinana, hei mahinga mā mātou ki a Ihowā, ki tō mātou Atua. 26 Me haere anō ā mātou kararehe i a mātou; e kore tētahi maikuku e mahue. Ka tangohia hoki e mātou ētahi o ēnā hei mahinga ki a Ihowā, ki tō mātou Atua; e kore hoki mātou e mōhio ki tā mātou e mahi ai ki a Ihowā, kia tae rā anō ki reira."

27 Otiia whakapakeketia ana e Ihowā te ngākau o Parao, ā, kīhai ia i pai ki te tuku i a rātou. 28 Nā, ka mea a Parao ki a ia, "Mawehe atu i ahau, kia tūpato kei kite koe i tōku kanohi ā muri ake nei; ko te rā hoki e kite ai koe i tōku kanohi, ka mate koe."

29 Anō rā ko Mohi, "Ka tika tāu kōrero, heoi anō tāku kitenga i tōu kanohi ki muri ake nei."