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Exodus 10:21-22. Darkness that can be felt. Moses raises his empty hand toward the sky as deep thick darkness covers Egypt. Medium-wide single scene. Moses at left foreground, long white hair and beard, crimson mantle muted nearly burgundy-black, cream robe dim gray, one open palm raised, other holding his gnarled staff low. His recognizable face and raised hand remain just legible through sparse muted edge light for the reader. Behind him an ancient Egyptian city of flat mudbrick roofs recedes into overwhelming blue-black darkness; no visible sun, moon, stars or eclipse disk, no literal smoke monster. Atmosphere feels heavy and still, dramatic pools of ink black, tactile gouache and paper grain. No visible deity, glowing hand, magical beam, locusts, text or lettering. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 10:21-22

Darkness that can be felt

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Story guide: Moses raises his hand, and thick darkness covers Egypt for three days.

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21Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness may be felt.”

22So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness over all the land of Egypt for three days.

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