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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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New Living Translation

Exodus 9:2

If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Plague;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Providence of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Plagues of Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
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,
Lexham English Bible
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,
New English Translation
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,
New American Standard Bible
"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,
Legacy Standard Bible
For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Contemporary English Version
If you keep refusing,
Complete Jewish Bible
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,
Easy-to-Read Version
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,
George Lamsa Translation
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,
Christian Standard Bible®
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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,
American Standard Version
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,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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,
King James Version (1611)
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:
English Revised Version
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,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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,
Update Bible Version
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,
World English Bible
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,
New Life Bible
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,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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:
Revised Standard Version
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,

Contextual Overview

1 "Go back to Pharaoh," the Lord commanded Moses. "Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me. 2 If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go, 3 the hand of the Lord will strike all your livestock—your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats—with a deadly plague. 4 But the Lord will again make a distinction between the livestock of the Israelites and that of the Egyptians. Not a single one of Israel's animals will die! 5 The Lord has already set the time for the plague to begin. He has declared that he will strike the land tomorrow.'" 6 And the Lord did just as he had said. The next morning all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but the Israelites didn't lose a single animal. 7 Pharaoh sent his officials to investigate, and they discovered that the Israelites had not lost a single animal! But even so, Pharaoh's heart remained stubborn, and he still refused to let the people go.

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 1:28
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground."
Genesis 2:19
So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
Genesis 9:4
But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.
Genesis 9:8
Then God told Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:20
After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.
Genesis 35:5
As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob's family.
Leviticus 26:6
"I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.

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.


 
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