Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. New Living Translation If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country. English Standard Version For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, Berean Study Bible But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. King James Bible Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: New King James Version Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. New American Standard Bible For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. NASB 1995 'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. NASB 1977 ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. Amplified Bible For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country. Christian Standard Bible But if you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. Holman Christian Standard Bible But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. American Standard Version Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: Aramaic Bible in Plain English And if you choose not to send my people out, behold, tomorrow I shall bring the locust upon your entire border: Brenton Septuagint Translation But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour to-morrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts. Contemporary English Version Do this by tomorrow, or I will cover your country with so many locusts Douay-Rheims Bible But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to morrow the locust into thy coasts: English Revised Version Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locusts into thy border: Good News Translation If you keep on refusing, then I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. GOD'S WORD® Translation If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country. International Standard Version But if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I'm going to bring locusts into your territory. JPS Tanakh 1917 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; Literal Standard Version for if you are refusing to send My people away, behold, tomorrow I am bringing in the locust into your border, NET Bible But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. New Heart English Bible Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, World English Bible Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, Young's Literal Translation for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border, Additional Translations ... Context The Eighth Plague: Locusts…3So 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. 4But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. 5They 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.… Cross References Exodus 10:3 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. Exodus 10:5 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. Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. Treasury of Scripture Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into your coast: tomorrow Exodus 8:10,23 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God… Exodus 9:5,18 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land… Exodus 11:4,5 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: … locusts. Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; Joel 1:4-7 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten… Joel 2:2-11,25 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations…
(4) To morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast.--Locusts, as already observed, are not indigenous to Egypt, but only occasional visitants. Consequently they always enter the country from some other, as Nubia, Abyssinia, Syria, or Arabia. On the quarter from which the present plague came, see the comment on Exodus 10:13.Verse 4. - To-morrow. Again a warning is given, and a space of time interposed, during which the king may repent and submit himself, if he chooses. The locusts. The species intended is probably either the Aeridium peregrinum or the Oedipoda migratoria. Both are common in Arabia and Syria, and both are known in Egypt. They are said to be equally destructive. The Hebrew name, arbeh, points to the "multitudinous" character of the visitation. A traveller in Syria says - "It is difficult to express the effect produced on us by the sight of the whole atmosphere filled on all sides and to a great height by an innumerable quantity of these insects, whose flight was slow and uniform, and whose noise resembled that of rain; the sky was darkened, and the light of the sun considerably weakened. In a moment the terraces of the houses, the streets, and all the fields were covered by these insects." (Ollivier, Voyage clans l'Empire Ottoman, vol. 2. p. 424.) Into thy coast - i.e. "across thy border, into thy territories." The locust is only an occasional visitant in Egypt, and seems always to arrive from some foreign country. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Butכִּ֛י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction if אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you refuse מָאֵ֥ן (mā·’ên) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 3986: Unwilling to let My people עַמִּ֑י (‘am·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock go, לְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ (lə·šal·lê·aḥ) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out I will bring מֵבִ֥יא (mê·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go locusts אַרְבֶּ֖ה (’ar·beh) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 697: (a kind of) locust into your territory בִּגְבֻלֶֽךָ׃ (biḡ·ḇu·le·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed tomorrow. מָחָ֛ר (mā·ḥār) Adverb Strong's 4279: Deferred, the morrow, tomorrow, hereafter Jump to Previous Border Borders Coast Country Locusts Morrow Refuse Refusing Territory Tomorrow To-MorrowJump to Next Border Borders Coast Country Locusts Morrow Refuse Refusing Territory Tomorrow To-MorrowLinks Exodus 10:4 NIVExodus 10:4 NLT Exodus 10:4 ESV Exodus 10:4 NASB Exodus 10:4 KJV Exodus 10:4 BibleApps.com Exodus 10:4 Biblia Paralela Exodus 10:4 Chinese Bible Exodus 10:4 French Bible Exodus 10:4 Clyx Quotations OT Law: Exodus 10:4 Or else if you refuse to let (Exo. Ex) |
   
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