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Exodus 10:12-13. The east wind. At dawn over Egypt after the hail, Moses extends his gnarled wooden staff outward over the land as a strong east wind brings the first distant locust cloud. Elder Moses at right foreground facing left, crimson mantle and cream robe, long white hair blown backward. Staff extended at a shallow upward diagonal over damaged fields with some low green growth remaining. Dust, dry leaves and wind-bent palms all stream in one consistent direction toward the left. Across the distant morning horizon a dense low brown swarm approaches, with just a few naturally sized locusts discernible nearer camera. No rain, hail or lightning, no split sea. Natural balanced stance and gripping hand, hand-inked gouache, no Aaron, Pharaoh, lettering or deity. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 10:12-13

The east wind

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Story guide: Moses stretches out his staff, and an east wind brings the locusts by morning.

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12Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, everything that the hail has left.”

13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night. When morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.

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