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Exodus 9:2
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Hebrew Names Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
King James Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Lexham English Bible
But if you are refusing to release and you still are keeping hold of them,
But if you are refusing to release and you still are keeping hold of them,
New Century Version
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
New English Translation
For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
Amplified Bible
"But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
"But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
New American Standard Bible
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
Legacy Standard Bible
For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Contemporary English Version
If you keep refusing,
If you keep refusing,
Complete Jewish Bible
If you refuse to let them go and persist in holding on to them,
If you refuse to let them go and persist in holding on to them,
Darby Translation
For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,
For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,
Easy-to-Read Version
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
English Standard Version
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
George Lamsa Translation
For if you refuse to let them go (and until now you have withheld them),
For if you refuse to let them go (and until now you have withheld them),
Good News Translation
If you again refuse to let them go,
If you again refuse to let them go,
Christian Standard Bible®
But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,
But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,
Literal Translation
And if you refuse to send away, and you still hold onto them,
And if you refuse to send away, and you still hold onto them,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,
Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,
American Standard Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Bible in Basic English
For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou refuse to let them go, and wylt holde them styll,
If thou refuse to let them go, and wylt holde them styll,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
King James Version (1611)
For if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt hold them still,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:
If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:
English Revised Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Berean Standard Bible
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to restrain them,
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to restrain them,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that if thou forsakist yit, and withholdist hem, lo!
that if thou forsakist yit, and withholdist hem, lo!
Young's Literal Translation
for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
Update Bible Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,
Webster's Bible Translation
For if thou shalt refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
For if thou shalt refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
World English Bible
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
New King James Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,
New Living Translation
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
New Life Bible
For if you will not let them go, and still hold them,
For if you will not let them go, and still hold them,
New Revised Standard
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go, - and still art holding them fast,
But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go, - and still art holding them fast,
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
Revised Standard Version
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Contextual Overview
1 God said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘ God , the God of the Hebrews, says: Release my people so they can worship me. If you refuse to release them and continue to hold on to them, I'm giving you fair warning: God will come down hard on your livestock out in the fields—horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep—striking them with a severe disease. God will draw a sharp line between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. Not one animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.'" 5 Then God set the time: "Tomorrow God will do this thing." 6And the next day God did it. All the livestock of Egypt died, but not one animal of the Israelites died. Pharaoh sent men to find out what had happened and there it was: none of the livestock of the Israelites had died—not one death. But Pharaoh stayed stubborn. He wouldn't release the people.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Exodus 4:23, Exodus 8:2, Exodus 10:4, Leviticus 26:14-16, Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:27, Leviticus 26:28, Psalms 7:11, Psalms 7:12, Psalms 68:21, Isaiah 1:20, Romans 2:8, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22, Revelation 16:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:5 - Peradventure Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Job 20:10 - his hands Jeremiah 50:33 - they refused
Cross-References
Genesis 9:8
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
Genesis 9:20
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.
Leviticus 26:6
"I'll make the country a place of peace—you'll be able to go to sleep at night without fear; I'll get rid of the wild beasts; I'll eliminate war. You'll chase out your enemies and defeat them: Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and do away with them. I'll give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow in numbers, and keep my covenant with you in good working order. You'll still be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to make room for the new crops.
"I'll make the country a place of peace—you'll be able to go to sleep at night without fear; I'll get rid of the wild beasts; I'll eliminate war. You'll chase out your enemies and defeat them: Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and do away with them. I'll give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow in numbers, and keep my covenant with you in good working order. You'll still be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to make room for the new crops.
Ezekiel 34:25
"‘I'll make a covenant of peace with them. I'll banish fierce animals from the country so the sheep can live safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest. I'll make them and everything around my hill a blessing. I'll send down plenty of rain in season—showers of blessing! The trees in the orchards will bear fruit, the ground will produce, they'll feel content and safe on their land, and they'll realize that I am God when I break them out of their slavery and rescue them from their slave masters.
"‘I'll make a covenant of peace with them. I'll banish fierce animals from the country so the sheep can live safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest. I'll make them and everything around my hill a blessing. I'll send down plenty of rain in season—showers of blessing! The trees in the orchards will bear fruit, the ground will produce, they'll feel content and safe on their land, and they'll realize that I am God when I break them out of their slavery and rescue them from their slave masters.
James 3:7
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats. Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats. Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done:
and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.
