Exodus 8:2
1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
4 The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
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.
Compare
- BSB
- But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- KJV
- And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
- WEB
- If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
- ASV
- And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
- DARBY
- And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
- BLB
- And if you refuse to send [them] out, behold, I am striking all your territory with the frogs.
- ÅB
- Dersom du nekter å la dem fare, da vil jeg plage hele ditt land med frosk.
- OTB
- Men hvis du nekter å la dem dra, vil jeg bringe en plage av frosker over hele ditt land.
- B1930
- Dersom du nekter å la dem fare, da vil jeg plage hele ditt land med frosk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 7:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
Read in contextPsalms 78:45
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
Read in contextExodus 9:2
But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,
Read in contextRevelation 16:13–14
And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
Read in contextPsalms 105:30
Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
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