Exodus 10:21
Good News Translation
The LORD then said to Moses, "Raise your hand toward the sky, and a darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt."

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch your arm toward the sky, and everything will be covered with darkness thick enough to touch."

New American Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses: Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that over the land of Egypt there may be such darkness that one can feel it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.

stretch

Exodus 9:22 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.

darkness.

Psalm 35:6 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

Psalm 78:49 And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

Psalm 105:28 He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Ecclesiastes 2:14 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

Isaiah 8:21,22 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards. . . .

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.

Luke 23:44 And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

2 Peter 2:4,17 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: . . .

Revelation 16:10,11 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for pain. . . .

even darkness which may be felt.

Context
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.22And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.…
Cross References
Revelation 8:12
And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for pain.

Exodus 7:19
The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers, and streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be turned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.

Exodus 9:22
And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:29
And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Psalm 105:28
He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

Ezekiel 32:7
And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Exodus 10:20
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