Yahweh caused a great darkness to cover Egypt

21 Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Reach your hand up toward the sky, in order that there will be darkness over all the land of Egypt, a darkness so complete that people will have to grope around to know where to walk.” 22 So Moses/I reached his/my hand toward the sky, and it became totally dark all over Egypt for three days and nights. 23 People could not see each other. No one left his house during that whole time. But there was light in the area where the Israeli people were living.

24 The king summoned Moses/me and said, “All right, you may go and worship Yahweh. Your wives and your children may go with you. But your flocks of sheep and goats and your herds of cattle must remain here.” 25 But Moses/I replied, “No, you must let us take along the sheep and goats, in order that we may have some of them to sacrifice and give as burned offerings to Yahweh, our God. 26 Our livestock must also go with us; we are not going to leave one of them [SYN] behind. We must take them to worship Yahweh. We will not know which animals to sacrifice until we get to where we are going.”

27 But Yahweh made the king continue to be stubborn [IDM], and he would not let the Israeli people go. 28 The king said to me, “Get out of here! Make sure that you never come to see me [SYN] again! The day you see me again, I will have you executed!” 29 Moses/I replied, “You are correct! You will never see me [SYN] again!”