Neville Goddard on Exodus 10:4-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 10 in context

Scripture Focus

4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

6And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

7And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

8And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?

9And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

10And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

11Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

15For they covered 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.

Exodus 10:4-15

Biblical Context

Pharaoh refuses to release the people; locusts darken and devastate the land, consuming what remains after prior judgments. Moses and Aaron press for surrender, and the people insist on going to worship the Lord with all their beings. The scene shifts as the Lord acts to fulfill the demand for liberation.

Neville's Inner Vision

All that appears as a plague in your life is the residue of a prior state you have not allowed to die. The cry 'let my people go' is the I AM within you demanding release from a habit-bound identity. Locusts sweeping the land are your thoughts and fears that devour every green thing you once believed you owned; they obscure the sun of your true freedom. Yet the moment you declare, 'We will go with our whole self—the young and the old—our entire being,' you align every facet of consciousness with liberation. The east wind, the stretching hand, and the plague's destruction signify the awakening of an inner will: you choose a new state and the old one dissolves. The Presence of God is not distant; it is your own I AM, the awareness that sees, names, and dissolves the accretions of limitation by imagination. When you dwell in the feeling of already being free, the plague loses its power and you feast unto the Lord in the realization of your deliverance.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are already free; imagine you and all you love stepping into the feast of the Lord, and feel the old fears recede as you inhabit the new state of liberation.