Exodus 10:23
Good News Translation
The Egyptians could not see each other, and no one left his house during that time. But the Israelites had light where they were living.

New Revised Standard Version
People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were; but all the Israelites had light where they lived.

Contemporary English Version
During that time, the Egyptians could not see each other or leave their homes, but there was light where the Israelites lived.

New American Bible
People could not see one another, nor could they get up from where they were, for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they lived.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.

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Exodus 8:22 And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:4,26 And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel. . . .

Exodus 14:20 Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night.

Joshua 24:7 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.

Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

Isaiah 60:1-3 Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . .

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Context
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
22And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.24And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your children go with you.…
Cross References
Exodus 8:22
And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Amos 4:7
I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

Exodus 10:22
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