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Exodus 10:4

2 and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

5 They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

6 They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
KJV
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
WEB
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
ASV
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:
DARBY
For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
BLB
For if you refuse to send out My people, behold, tomorrow I am bringing the locust into your territory.
ÅB
For dersom du nekter å la mitt folk fare, da vil jeg imorgen la gresshopper komme over ditt land.
OTB
For hvis du fortsetter å nekte å la mitt folk dra, merk deg, i morgen vil jeg bringe gresshopper inn i ditt område.
B1930
For dersom du nekter å la mitt folk fare, da vil jeg imorgen la gresshopper komme over ditt land.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Revelation 9:3

    And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

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  • Joel 2:25

    I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.

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  • Exodus 9:18

    Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

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  • Joel 1:4–7

    What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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  • Joel 2:2–11

    a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

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  • Exodus 8:23

    I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”

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  • Exodus 8:10

    “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

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  • Exodus 11:4–5

    So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

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