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The Eighth Plague: Locusts

Exodus 10:4

In 11 translations

BSB
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
KJV
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
WEB
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
ASV
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:
LSV
for if you are refusing to send My people away, behold, tomorrow I am bringing in the locust into your border,
YLT
for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,
DBY
For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
DRC
But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in tomorrow the locust into thy coasts:
GNV
But if thou refuse to let my people go, beholde, to morowe will I bring grashoppers into thy coastes.
JPS
Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border;
LXXE
But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour to-morrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.

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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
כִּ֛י אִם־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ אֶת־עַמִּ֑י הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֥יא מָחָ֛ר אַרְבֶּ֖ה בִּגְבֻלֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ μὴ θέλῃς σὺ ἐξαποστεῖλαι τὸν λαόν μου, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ταύτην τὴν ὥραν αὔριον ἀκρίδα πολλὴν ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ὅριά σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 9:3And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
  • Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.
  • Joel 1:4–7What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up, you…
  • Exodus 11:4–5So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn…
  • Proverbs 30:27the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
  • Exodus 9:18Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
  • Exodus 8:10“Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
  • Exodus 8:23I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”
  • Exodus 9:5The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
  • Joel 2:2–11a 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. Before them a fire…

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