The Fifth Plague: Livestock
Exodus 9:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,
- KJV
- For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
- WEB
- For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
- ASV
- For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
- LSV
- for if you are refusing to send [them] away, and are still keeping hold on them,
- YLT
- for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
- DBY
- For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,
- DRC
- But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
- GNV
- But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
- JPS
- For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
- LXXE
- If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:
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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 לְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ וְעוֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֥יק בָּֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ μὲν οὖν μὴ βούλει ἐξαποστεῖλαι τὸν λαόν μου, ἀλλὰ ἔτι ἐγκρατεῖς αὐτοῦ,
Who and where
◆ Exodus from Egypt
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Plagues, the TenDivorce in the Old TestamentPlagueMagic; MagicianEgyptiansPlagues of EgyptMosesAnimalsEgyptFalsehood
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Isaiah 1:20But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
- Exodus 10:4But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- Leviticus 26:14–16If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, then this is what…
- Revelation 2:21–22Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent…
- Psalms 68:21Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
- Psalms 7:11–12God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Leviticus 26:27–28But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:23–24And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
- Exodus 4:23and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
- Revelation 16:9And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory.
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