ABARBANEL’S QUESTIONS ♦ When Pharaoh says, “You menfolk go and worship the LORD” (v. 11), something that Moses and Aaron never requested, why does he add, “since that is what you want”? ♦ Why are we told specifically that the locusts were brought by an east wind (v. 13) and dispersed by a west wind (v. 19)? ♦ How can the text say, “Never before had there been so many, nor will there ever be so many again” (v. 14), when we are told of the later locust plague in Joel, “Nothing like