Holy Scripture

Exodus 10:12

A church father on this verse
“Even the locust, by divine grace, penetrates everywhere, and when it has filled the width of each region with its dense swarm, it first strikes without harm, and feeds on the barren land only after receiving the divine signal of permission. Indeed, just as we read in Exodus, it also acts as the celestial executor of r…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — The Six Days of Creation 5.23.82

Source: Septuagint

Original

12And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.

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In context

10And he said to them, So let the Lord be with you: as I will send you away, must I send away your store also? see that evil is attached to you.

11Not so, but let the men go and serve God, for this ye yourselves seek; and they cast them out from the presence of Pharaoh.

— Exodus 10:12 —

13And Moses lifted up his rod toward heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night: the morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts,

14and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be.

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