Exodus 9:2

For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

In Context

1Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.

3Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:1And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

Exodus 9:13And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.

Leviticus 26:14But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

Leviticus 26:27And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,

Psalms 68:21\68:20\Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

Romans 2:8But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 9:2-8

The Plagues of Egypt. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. 4 And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle… Read the whole commentary →

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