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The Ninth Plague: Darkness

Exodus 10:22

In 11 translations

BSB
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
KJV
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
WEB
Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
ASV
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
LSV
And Moses stretches out his hand toward the heavens, and there is darkness—thick darkness in all the land of Egypt [for] three days;
YLT
And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness — thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
DBY
And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens; and there was a thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt three days:
DRC
And Moses stretch forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
GNV
Then Moses stretched forth his hande towarde heauen, and there was a blacke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three daies.
JPS
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
LXXE
And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days.Gr. darkness, blackness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיֵּ֥ט מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶת־יָד֖וֹ עַל־הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיְהִ֧י חֹֽשֶׁךְ־אֲפֵלָ֛ה בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Ἐξέτεινε δὲ Μωυσῆς τὴν χεῖρα εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν· καὶ ἐγένετο σκότος γνόφος, θύελλα ἐπὶ πᾶσαν γῆν Αἰγύπτου τρεῖς ἡμέρας·

Who and where

👤 Moses📍 Egypt◆ Exodus from Egypt

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
  • Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
  • Deuteronomy 4:11You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
  • Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
  • Deuteronomy 5:22The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them…
  • Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
  • Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
  • Exodus 20:21And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

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