Exodus 10:4
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 Standard 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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

Good News Translation
If you keep on refusing, then I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

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,

Majority Standard Bible
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

New American Bible
For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

NET Bible
But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

New Heart English Bible
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

Webster's Bible Translation
Else, if thou shalt refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy border:

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,

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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…

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Exodus 10
1. God threatens to send locusts
7. Pharaoh, moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go
12. The plague of the locusts
16. Pharaoh entreats Moses
21. The plague of darkness
24. Pharaoh again entreats Moses, but yet is hardened














(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
But
כִּ֛י (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


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