Exodus 9:2
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New International Version (©2011)
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,

New Living Translation (©2007)
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,

English Standard Version (©2001)
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

NET Bible (©2006)
For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them [in slavery],

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,

American King James Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,

American Standard Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:

Darby Bible Translation
For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,

English Revised Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Webster's Bible Translation
For if thou shalt refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

World English Bible
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

Young's Literal Translation
for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:1-7 God will have Israel released, Pharaoh opposes it, and the trial is, whose word shall stand. The hand of the Lord at once is upon the cattle, many of which, some of all kinds, die by a sort of murrain. This was greatly to the loss of the owners; they had made Israel poor, and now God would make them poor. The hand of God is to be seen, even in the sickness and death of cattle; for a sparrow falls not to the ground without our Father. None of the Israelites' cattle should die; the Lord shall sever. The cattle died. The Egyptians worshipped their cattle. What we make an idol of, it is just with God to remove from us. This proud tyrant and cruel oppressor deserved to be made an example by the just Judge of the universe. None who are punished according to what they deserve, can have any just cause to complain. Hardness of heart denotes that state of mind upon which neither threatenings nor promise, neither judgements nor mercies, make any abiding impression. The conscience being stupified, and the heart filled with pride and presumption, they persist in unbelief and disobedience. This state of mind is also called the stony heart. Very different is the heart of flesh, the broken and contrite heart. Sinners have none to blame but themselves, for that pride and ungodliness which abuse the bounty and patience of God. For, however the Lord hardens the hearts of men, it is always as a punishment of former sins.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done:

and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.

Exodus 9:2 Parallel Commentaries
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The Fifth Plague: Livestock
1Then the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus said the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still, 3Behold, the hand of the LORD is on your cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. …

Exodus 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.
Exodus 9:3 the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field--on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.