a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.