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"the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and 

 ' ' they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees 

 "which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing 

 " in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of 

 " Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; 

 "and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and 

 ' ' against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only 

 "this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take 

 "away from me this death only. And he went out from Pharaoh, 

 " and intreated the Lord. And the Lord turned a mighty strong 

 " west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the 

 " Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of 

 "Egypt. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he 

 " would not let the children of Israel go." 



Here it is evident that it was the deliberate intention of the 

 Divine Being to destroy the Locusts by drowning them in the 

 Red Sea. 



How the Divine Being thought best to proceed when desiring 

 to cleanse the Earth, and why He did it, is shown clearly and 

 unmistakably in Genesis, chapters vi and vii. 



Chapter vi, vs. 5-18: " And God saw that the wickedness of 

 " man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the 

 " thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented 

 ' ' the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved 

 "him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom 

 " I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, 

 "and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth 

 " me that I have made them. But- Noah found grace in the eyes 

 " of the Lord These are the generations of Noah: Noah was 

 "a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked 

 "with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and 

 ' ' Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth 

 " was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, 

 " behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon 

 "the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is 

 "come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through 

 "them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make 

 " thee an ark of gopher wood;" (etc. vs. 14-16). " And, behold, 

 " I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy 

 ^^ all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and 



