28. He sent darkness, and made it dark. It was
no natural or common darkness; it was beyond all precedent and out of the range
of ordinary events. It was a horrible palpable obscurity which people felt
clinging about them as though it were a robe of death. It was a total darkness,
a darkness which lasted three days, a darkness in which no one dared to stir. And they rebelled not against his word. Moses and Aaron did as they were
bidden, and during the darkness the Egyptians were so cowed that even when it
cleared away they were anxious for Israel to be gone, and had it not been for
the pride of Pharaoh they would have rejoiced to speed them on their journey
there and then.
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