²⁸ He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

⁷ His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

²² And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

²³ They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

⁴ And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

⁵ And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.

⁶ And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

⁷ And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

⁸ But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

² For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

⁴⁴ And it was now about the sixth hour; and all the land was dark till the ninth hour;

⁴⁵ The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.

⁴ For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

¹⁷ These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.