Exodus 10:4

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“But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.”

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BSBPD

“But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 10:4 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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!’”
  2. Exodus 5:1After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
  3. 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.
  4. Exodus 8:23I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”
  5. Exodus 9:5The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
  6. 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.
  7. Exodus 11:4So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
  8. Proverbs 30:27the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
  9. Joel 1:4What 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

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