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The eighth plague; the Locusts. - Exo 10:1-6. As Pharaoh's pride still refused to bend to the will of God, Moses was directed to announce another, and in some respects a more fearful, plague. At the same time God strengthened Moses' faith, by telling him that the hardening of Pharaoh and his servants was decreed by Him, that these signs might be done among them, and that Israel might perceive by this to all generations that He was Jehovah (cf. Exo 7:3-5). We may learn from Ps 78 and 105 in what manner the Israelites narrated these signs to their children and children's children. אֹתֹת שִׁית, to set or prepare signs (Exo 10:1), is interchanged with שׂוּם (Exo 10:2) in the same sense (vid., Exo 8:12). The suffix in בְּקִרְבֹּו (Exo 10:1) refers to Egypt as a country; and that in בָּם (Exo 10:2) to the Egyptians. In the expression, “thou mayest tell,” Moses is addressed as the representative of the nation. הִתְעַלֵּל: to have to do with a person, generally in a bad sense, to do him harm (1Sa 31:4). “How I have put forth My might” (De Wette).