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. New American Standard Bible 'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. King James Bible Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: Christian Standard Bible But if you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. Contemporary English Version Do this by tomorrow, or I will cover your country with so many locusts Good News Translation If you keep on refusing, then I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. Holman Christian Standard Bible But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. International Standard Version But if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I'm going to 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 Heart English Bible Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, GOD'S WORD® Translation If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country. JPS Tanakh 1917 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; New American Standard 1977 ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. Jubilee Bible 2000 For if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring the locusts into thy borders, King James 2000 Bible Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into your land: American King James Version Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into your coast: American Standard Version Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 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: Darby Bible Translation For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders; English Revised Version Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 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,
…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 locust 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 your word: … Exodus 9:5,18 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall … Exodus 11:4,5 And Moses said, Thus said the LORD, About midnight will I go out … locusts. The word arbeh, Locust, is derived from ravah, to multiply, be numerous, because they are more prolific than any other insect, and because of the immense swarms of them by which different countries, especially the East, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the name of Grylli; which includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The common great brown locust is about three inches in length; has two antennae about an inch long, and two pair of wings. The head and horns are brown; the mouth and inside of the larger legs bluish; the upper side of the body and upper wings brown, the former spotted with black, and the latter with dusky spots. The back is defended by a shield of a greenish hue; the under wings are of a light brown, tinctured with green, and nearly transparent. It has a large open mouth, in the two jaws of which it has four teeth, which traverse each other like scissors, being calculated, from their mechanism, to gripe or cut. The general appearance of the insect is that of the grasshopper. The Egyptians had gods in whom they trusted to deliver them from these terrible invaders; but by this judgment they were taught that it was impossible to stand before Moses, the servant of Jehovah. 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 has left has the locust eaten; and that … Joel 2:2-11,25 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick … Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts on the earth: and to them … Lexicon Butכִּ֛י (kî) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction if אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you refuse מָאֵ֥ן (mā·’ên) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3986: Unwilling to let My people עַמִּ֑י (‘am·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock go, לְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ (lə·šal·lê·aḥ) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out I will bring מֵבִ֥יא (mê·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go locusts אַרְבֶּ֖ה (’ar·beh) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed tomorrow. מָחָ֛ר (mā·ḥār) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 4279: Deferred, the morrow, tomorrow, hereafter (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. 10:1-11 The plagues of Egypt show the sinfulness of sin. They warn the children of men not to strive with their Maker. Pharaoh had pretended to humble himself; but no account was made of it, for he was not sincere therein. The plague of locusts is threatened. This should be much worse than any of that kind which had ever been known. Pharaoh's attendants persuade him to come to terms with Moses. Hereupon Pharaoh will allow the men to go, falsely pretending that this was all they desired. He swears that they shall not remove their little ones. Satan does all he can to hinder those that serve God themselves, from bringing their children to serve him. He is a sworn enemy to early piety. Whatever would put us from engaging our children in God's service, we have reason to suspect Satan in it. Nor should the young forget that the Lord's counsel is, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth; but Satan's counsel is, to keep children in a state of slavery to sin and to the world. Mark that the great foe of man wishes to retain him by the ties of affection, as Pharaoh would have taken hostages from the Israelites for their return, by holding their wives and children in captivity. Satan is willing to share our duty and our service with the Saviour, because the Saviour will not accept those terms. 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