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Exodus 9:15
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For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the eretz;
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth.
By now I could have used my power and caused a terrible disease that would have destroyed you and your people from the earth.
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
"For by now I could have put out My hand and struck you and your people with a pestilence, and you would then have been cut off (obliterated) from the earth.
"For had I now put out My hand and struck you and your people with plague, you would then have been eliminated from the earth.
For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth.
For if by now I had sent forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been wiped out from the earth.
In fact, he could already have sent a terrible disease and wiped you from the face of the earth.
By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with such severe plagues that you would have been wiped off the earth.
For now shall I put forth my hand, and I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
I could use my power and cause a disease that would wipe you and your people off the earth.
For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
For now I will stretch out my hand that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall perish from the earth.
If I had raised my hand to strike you and your people with disease, you would have been completely destroyed.
By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.
For now I have sent forth My hand and have stricken you and your people with pestilence, and you have been destroyed from the earth.
For I will now stretch out my hande, & smyte the & thy people wt pestilence, so yt thou shalt be roted out from the earth.
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smyte thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt peryshe from the earth.
Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth.
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:
For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
For now Y schal holde forth the hond, and Y schal smyte thee and thi puple with pestilence, and thou schalt perische fro erthe;
for now I have put forth My hand, and I smite thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou art hidden from the earth.
For now I have put forth my hand, and have smitten you and your people with pestilence, and you have been cut off from the earth:
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.
By now I could have lifted my hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the face of the earth.
For by now I could have put out My hand and hit you and your people with much trouble and great suffering. You would then have been destroyed from the earth.
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
For now, might I have put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, - and thou shoulder have secretly disappeared from the earth;
For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.
For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
"For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
stretch: Exodus 9:3, Exodus 9:6, Exodus 9:16, Exodus 3:20
that: Exodus 11:4-6, Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30
cut off: Exodus 14:28, 1 Kings 13:34, Proverbs 2:22
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 4:11 - from 1 Kings 8:42 - thy strong hand 2 Kings 17:36 - a stretched 2 Kings 19:19 - O Lord Isaiah 37:20 - that all Jeremiah 21:5 - with an
Cross-References
And God said to Noah and to his sons,
And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
And the two stones are to be placed on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel: Aaron will have their names on his arms when he goes in before the Lord, to keep the Lord in mind of them.
Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.
And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.
To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence,.... Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet it is not certain that this was done by the pestilence: besides, Pharaoh was not then smitten, nor his people, only their firstborn; wherefore these words are to be rendered, not in the future, but in the imperfect or preterpluperfect tense, thus; "for when now I stretched out my hand, or if now I had stretched out my hand to smite thee and thy people with pestilence" a; that is, at the time when he smote the cattle with the murrain or pestilence, when he could as well have smote him and his people with it; there was no want of power in God to do it, and had he done it, it would have been all over with him and them:
and thou shall be cut off from the earth; or "thou hadst been, or wouldest have been cut off from the earth" b must have perished out of it, and been no more in the land of the living.
a כי עתה שלחתי "modo enim cum extendi", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, "vel si extendissem", Fagius, Cocceius so Jarchi, Gersom, Targ. Onk. & Jon. b ותכחד "sic fuisses excisus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a temporary, but real, change in Pharaoh’s feelings.
Exodus 9:14
All my plagues - This applies to all the plagues which follow; the effect of each was foreseen and foretold. The words “at this time” point to a rapid and continuous succession of blows. The plagues which precede appear to have been spread over a considerable time; the first message of Moses was delivered after the early harvest of the year before, when the Israelites could gather stubble, i. e. in May and April: the second mission, when the plagues began, was probably toward the end of June, and they went on at intervals until the winter; this plague was in February; see Exodus 9:31.
Exodus 9:15
For now ... - Better, For now indeed, had I stretched forth my hand and smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence, then hadst thou been cut off from the earth. Exodus 9:16 gives the reason why God had not thus inflicted a summary punishment once for all.
Exodus 9:16
Have I raised thee up - See the margin. God kept Pharaoh “standing”, i. e. permitted him to live and hold out until His own purpose was accomplished.
Exodus 9:18
A very grievous hail - The miracle consisted in the magnitude of the infliction and in its immediate connection with the act of Moses.
Exodus 9:19
In Egypt the cattle are sent to pasture in the open country from January to April, when the grass is abundant. They are kept in stalls for the rest of the year.
Exodus 9:20
The word of the Lord - This gives the first indication that the warnings had a salutary effect upon the Egyptians.
Exodus 9:27
The Lord - Thus, for the first time, Pharaoh explicitly recognizes Yahweh as God (compare Exodus 5:2).
Exodus 9:29
The earth is the Lord’s - This declaration has a direct reference to Egyptian superstition. Each god was held to have special power within a given district; Pharaoh had learned that Yahweh was a god, he was now to admit that His power extended over the whole earth. The unity and universality of the divine power, though occasionally recognized in ancient Egyptian documents, were overlaid at a very early period by systems alternating between Polytheism and Pantheism.
Exodus 9:31
The flax was bolled - i. e. in blossom. This marks the time. In the north of Egypt the barley ripens and flax blossoms about the middle of February, or at the latest early in March, and both are gathered in before April, when the wheat harvest begins. The cultivation of flax must have been of great importance; linen was preferred to any material, and exclusively used by the priests. It is frequently mentioned on Egyptian monuments.
Exodus 9:32
Rie - Rather, “spelt,” the common food of the ancient Egyptians, now called “doora” by the natives, and the only grain represented on the sculptures: the name, however, occurs on the monuments very frequently in combination with other species.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 9:15. For now I will stretch out my hand — In the Hebrew the verbs are in the past tense, and not in the future, as our translation improperly expresses them, by which means a contradiction appears in the text: for neither Pharaoh nor his people were smitten by a pestilence, nor was he by any kind of mortality cut off from the earth. It is true the first-born were slain by a destroying angel, and Pharaoh himself was drowned in the Red Sea; but these judgments do not appear to be referred to in this place. If the words be translated, as they ought, in the subjunctive mood, or in the past instead of the future, this seeming contradiction to facts, as well as all ambiguity, will be avoided: For if now I HAD STRETCHED OUT (שלהתי shalachti, had set forth) my hand, and had smitten thee (ואך אותך vaach otheca) and thy people with the pestilence, thou SHOULDST HAVE BEEN cut off (תכחד ticcached) from the earth.
