^{17 Ref} Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

^{18 Ref} And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.

^{19 Ref} And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

^{20 Ref} But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.