Exodus 10:21

Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Reach your hand up toward the sky, in order that there will be darkness over all the land of Egypt, a darkness so complete that people will have to grope around to know where to walk.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

In Context

20But Yahweh made the king stubborn [IDM] again, and he did not let the Israeli people go.

22So Moses/I reached his/my hand toward the sky, and it became totally dark all over Egypt for three days and nights.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:22Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Raise your hand up toward the sky, in order that hail will fall all over the land of Egypt—on the people and on their animals and on all the plants in the fields.”

Deuteronomy 4:34Certainly no other god has ever tried to take a huge group of people from one nation to another location, like he did for us when he brought us out of Egypt. We saw Yahweh our God use great power [MTY, DOU] when he performed many kinds of [DOU] miracles, and sent plagues, and did many other very terrifying things in Egypt for us, and rescued us when the army of Egypt tried to fight against us.

Job 5:14It is as though even in the daytime they are covered by darkness, and grope around trying to find the road at noontime like people do at night.

Psalms 78:49Because God was fiercely angry with the people of Egypt, he caused them to be very distressed. The disasters that struck them were like a group of angels that destroyed everything.

Proverbs 4:19But the behavior of wicked people is like deep/thick darkness. Because it is very dark, they cannot see the things that cause them to stumble.

Ecclesiastes 6:4That dead baby’s birth is meaningless; it does not even have a name. It goes directly to the place where there is only darkness.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:13-21

12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous… Read the whole commentary →

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