the next day.

So on the next day Moses prayed to the Lord that the frogs might go out
of the land, and the Lord answered his prayer; but when Pharoah saw
that the frogs had been destroyed his heart grew hard, and he would not
listen to Moses and Aaron.

Then another plague was brought upon the Egyptians. The dust of the
land was changed to lice that covered man and beast, and this was
followed by swarms of flies that settled upon all the land except
Goshen where the Israelites lived.

Then Pharoah said:

"Go, sacrifice to your God in this land," but they would not worship in
Egypt, and Pharoah at last told them that they could go into the
wilderness, but they must not go very far away. So Moses prayed, and
the swarms of flies were swept out of Egypt, but Pharoah did not keep
his word.

Then a great sickness fell upon the cattle and sheep of the country,
though the flocks and herds of the Israelites were free from it; and
this was followed by a breaking out of boils upon men and beasts
everywhere, even upon the magicians, but Pharaoh's heart was still too
wicked to yield to God.

Then came a great storm of hail over Egypt, such as had never been
known in that sunny land. It killed the cattle in the fields, and
destroyed the grain that was grown, and broke the trees and herbs. The
lightnings fell also and ran upon the ground, and when it was over the
heart of Pharaoh was still hard against God.

Then Moses told Pharaoh that the face of the earth would be covered
with clouds of locusts that would eat every green thing left by the
storm, if he did not let God's people go. This frightened Pharaoh's
servants and they begged him to send them away, and though he would not
let their wives and little ones go, he said:

"Go now, ye that are men, for that ye did desire," and he drove them
out of his presence.

Then at the Lord's word, Moses arose and stretched forth his rod over
Egypt, and the plague of locusts came, driven by the East wind, and
covered the land until there was no green thing left in Egypt.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron in great haste, and confessing
his sin, begged to be forgiven and to be saved from, "this death only,"
and, at Moses' prayer, a mighty west wind drove the army of locusts
into the Red Sea.

But again the heart of Pharaoh turned against God, and the Lord brought
thick darkness over the land for three days, only in the homes of the
Hebrews there was light. Then Pharaoh