1 T he Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart hard, and his servants’ hearts, that I might show these My signs before him,

وَقالَ اللهُ لِمُوسَى: «اذهَبْ إلَى فِرعَوْنَ لِأنِّي قَسَّيتُ قَلبَهُ وَقُلُوبَ خُدّامِهِ كَي أُظهِرَ مُعجِزاتِي فِي وَسَطِهِمْ،

2 A nd that you may recount in the ears of your son and of your grandson what I have done in derision of the Egyptians and what things I have done there—My signs done among them—that you may recognize and know that I am the Lord.

وَلِكَيْ تُخبِرَ أولادَكَ وَأحفادَكَ بِما عَمِلْتُهُ بِالمِصْرِيِّينَ، وَتُخبِرَهُمْ بِالمُعجِزاتِ الَّتِي عَمِلْتُها، فَتَعلَمُونَ أنِّي أنا اللهُ.»

3 S o Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

فَأتَى مُوسَى وَهارُونُ إلَى فِرعَوْنَ وَقالا لَهُ: «هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ يهوه إلَهُ العِبرانِيِّينَ: ‹حَتَّى مَتَى تَرفُضُ أنْ تَتَواضَعَ أمامِي؟ أطلِقْ شَعبِي لِيَعبُدَنِي.

4 F or if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

فَإنْ رَفَضْتَ، سَآتِي بِالجَرادِ عَلَى بَلَدِكَ وَأرْضِكَ فِي الغَدِ،

5 A nd they shall cover the land so that one cannot see the ground; and they shall eat the remainder of what escaped and is left to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field;

فَيُغَطِّي سَطحَ الأرْضِ حَتَّى لا يَستَطِيعَ أحَدٌ أنْ يَرَى الأرْضَ. وَسَيَأْكُلُ الجَرادُ ما تَبَقَّى لَكُمْ بَعدَ ضَربَةِ البَرَدِ. سَيَأْكُلُ كُلَّ أشجارِكُمُ النّابِتَةِ فِي الحَقلِ.

6 T he locusts shall fill your houses and those of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen from their birth until this day. Then Moses departed from Pharaoh.

بَلْ سَتَمتَلِئُ بِها بُيُوتُكَ وَبُيُوتُ خُدّامِكَ وَبَيَوتُ كُلِّ المِصرِيِّينَ. وَسَتَرَى أنْتَ ما لَمْ يَرَهُ آباؤُكَ وَأجدادُكَ مُنذُ أنْ وُجِدُوا عَلَى الأرْضِ إلَى اليَومِ!›» ثُمَّ اسْتَدارَ وَخَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِ فِرعَوْنَ.

7 A nd Pharaoh’s servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God; do you not yet understand and know that Egypt is destroyed?

فَقالَ خُدّامُ فِرعَوْنَ لَهُ: «إلَى مَتَى سَيَبقَى هَذا الرَّجُلُ فَخّاً لَنا؟ أطلِقِ الرِّجالَ لِيَعبُدُوا إلَهَهُمْ. ألا تَرَى أنَّ مِصرَ قَدْ خَرِبَتْ؟»

8 S o Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go, serve the Lord your God; but just who are to go?

فاسْتُدْعِيَ مُوسَى وَهارُونُ إلَى فِرعَوْنَ، فَقالَ لَهُما: «اذْهَبُوا وَاعْبُدُوا إلَهَكُمْ. لَكِنْ، مَنِ الَّذينَ سَيَذْهَبُونَ؟»

9 A nd Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.

فَقالَ مُوسَى: «سَنَذْهَبُ جَمِيعاً مَعَ شُبّانِنا وَشُيُوخِنا وَأبْنائِنا وَبَناتِنا وَغَنَمِنا وَبَقَرِنا، لِأنَّ لَدَينا عِيداً للهِ لِنَحتَفِلَ بِهِ.»

10 P haraoh said to them, Let the Lord be with you, if I ever let you go with your little ones! See, you have some evil purpose in mind.

فَقالَ فِرعَوْنُ ساخِراً: «يَكُونُ اللهُ مَعَكُمْ بِالفِعلِ إذا أطلَقْتُ أولادَكُمْ مَعَكُمْ! أنْتُما تُخْفِيانِ خُطَّةً شِرِّيرَةً.

11 N ot so! You that are men, go and serve the Lord, for that is what you want. And were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

يُمكِنُ لِلرِّجالِ فَقَطْ أنْ يَذهَبُوا وَيَعْبُدُوا اللهَ ، لِأنَّ هَذا ما تُرِيدانِهِ.» ثُمَّ طَرَدَهُما فِرعَوْنُ مِنْ أمامِهِ.

12 T hen the Lord 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 all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail has left.

فَقالَ اللهُ لِمُوسَى: «مُدَّ يَدَكَ عَلَى أرْضِ مِصرَ لَيأتِيَ الجَرادُ عَلَى أرْضِ مِصرَ وَيَأْكُلَ كُلَّ عُشْبٍ أخضَرَ فِي الأرْضِ تَرَكَهُ البَرَدُ.»

13 A nd Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

فَمَدَّ مُوسَى عَصاهُ عَلَى أرْضِ مِصرَ، فَساقَ اللهُ رِيحاً شَرقِيَّةً عَلَى الأرْضِ طِيلَةَ النَّهارِ وَاللَّيلِ. وَحِينَ جاءَ الصَّباحُ، ساقَتِ الرِّيحُ الشَّرْقِيَّةُ الجَرادَ.

14 A nd the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled down on the whole country of Egypt, a very dreadful mass of them; never before were there such locusts as these, nor will there ever be again.

أتَى الجَرادُ عَلَى كُلِّ أرْضِ مِصْرَ وَاستَقَرَّ فِيها. كانَتِ المأساةُ عَظيمَةً، إذْ لَمْ يَأْتِ جَرادٌ كَهَذا مِنْ قَبلُ، وَلَنْ يَأْتِيَ.

15 F or they covered the whole land, so that the ground was darkened, and they ate every bit of vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; there remained not a green thing of the trees or the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.

فَقَدْ غَطَّى الجَرادُ سَطحَ الأرْضِ، حَتَّى سَادَتِ الظُّلْمَةُ. وَأكَلَ كُلَّ نَباتٍ فِي الأرْضِ وَكُلَّ ثِمارِ الأشْجارِ الَّتِي بَقِيَتْ بَعدَ ضَرْبَةِ البَرَدِ. لَمْ يَتَبَقَّ شَيءٌ أخضَرُ بَينَ الأشْجارِ وَالنَّباتاتِ فِي أرْضِ مِصرَ.

16 T hen Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron in haste. He said, I have sinned against the Lord your God and you.

فَأسرَعَ فِرعَوْنُ بِاستِدعاءِ مُوسَى وَهارُونَ، وَقالَ: «أخطَأْتُ إلَى يهوه إلَهِكُما وَإلَيكُما.

17 N ow therefore forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the Lord your God only that He may remove from me this death.

وَالآنَ، اغفِرا خَطِيَّتِي هَذِهِ المَرَّةَ، وَصَلِّيا إلَى يهوه إلَهِكُما أنْ يُزِيلَ عَنِّيَ هَذا المَوتَ.»

18 T hen Moses left Pharaoh and entreated the Lord.

فَخَرَجَ مُوسَى مِنْ عِنْدِ فِرعَوْنَ وَصَلَّى إلَى اللهِ.

19 A nd the Lord turned a violent west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained in all the country of Egypt.

فَأرْسَلَ اللهُ رِيحاً غَربِيَّةً قَوِيَّةً حَمَلَتِ الجَرادَ وَألقَتْهُ فِي البَحرِ الأحمَرِ، حَتَّى لَمْ تَبْقَ جَرادَةٌ واحِدَةٌ فِي أرْضِ مِصرَ.

20 B ut the Lord made Pharaoh’s heart more strong and obstinate, and he would not let the Israelites go.

لَكِنَّ اللهَ قَسَّى قَلْبَ فِرعَوْنَ كَي لا يُطلِقَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ. الظَّلام

21 A nd the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt.

وَقالَ اللهُ لِمُوسَى: «مُدَّ يَدَكَ نَحوَ السَّماءِ لِيَأْتِيَ ظَلامٌ عَلَى أرْضِ مِصرَ، حَتَّى إنَّهُ يَكادُ أنْ يُلمَسَ لِشِدَّتِهِ!»

22 S o Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and for three days a thick darkness was all over the land of Egypt.

فَمَدَّ مُوسَى يَدَهُ نَحْوَ السَّماءِ، فَحلَّ ظَلامٌ شَدِيدٌ عَلَى أرْضِ مِصرَ لِمُدَّةِ ثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ،

23 T he Egyptians could not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the Israelites had natural light in their dwellings.

حَتَّى لَمْ يَعُدِ أحَدٌ يَقدِرُ أنْ يَرَى الآخَرَ. وَلَمْ يَقُمْ أحَدٌ مِنْ مَكانِهِ لِثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ. وَأمّا بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ فَكانَ لَدَيهِمْ نُورٌ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ.

24 A nd Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, Go, serve the Lord; let your little ones also go with you; it is only your flocks and your herds that must not go.

فَاسْتَدعَى فِرعَوْنُ مُوسَى وَقالَ لَهُ: «اذهَبُوا وَاخْدِمُوا اللهَ ، لكِنْ تَبقَى غَنَمُكُمْ وَبَقَرُكُمْ. وَيُمكِنُ لِأولادِكُمْ أيضاً أنْ يَذهَبُوا مَعَكُمْ.»

25 B ut Moses said, You must give into our hand also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

فَقالَ مُوسَى: «بَلْ أنتَ أيضاً سَتُعطِيَنا قَرابينَ وَذَبائِحَ لِنَذْبَحَ لإلَهِنا.

26 O ur livestock also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for of them must we take to serve the Lord our God, and we know not with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.

وَمَواشِينا تَذهَبُ مَعَنا، فَلا يَبقَى مِنها رَأْسٌ واحِدٌ، لِأنَّنا سَنَذْبَحُ منْها أثَناءَ عِبادَةِ إلَهِنا. وَلا نَعرِفُ ماذا سَنَذْبَحُ للهِ بِالتَّحْدِيدِ حَتَّى نَصِلَ إلَى هُناكَ.»

27 B ut the Lord made Pharaoh’s heart stronger and more stubborn, and he would not let them go.

لَكِنَّ اللهَ قَسَّى قَلبَ فِرعَوْنَ، وَلَمْ يُرِدْ أنْ يُطلِقَهُمْ.

28 A nd Pharaoh said to Moses, Get away from me! See that you never enter my presence again, for the day you see my face again you shall die!

وَقالَ فِرعَوْنُ لِمُوسَى: «ابْتَعِدْ عَنِّي! احذَرْ! لا تَرَنِي ثانِيَةً، فَحِينَ تَرانِي سَتَمُوتُ.»

29 A nd Moses said, You have spoken truly; I will never see your face again.

وَقالَ مُوسَى: «كَما قُلْتَ بِالفِعلِ، لَنْ أراكَ ثانِيَةً.»