Exodus 10:4

Exodus 10:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
• New International Version (NIV)If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

Context of Exodus 10:4

2and that you may recount and explain in the hearing of your son, and your grandson, what I have done [repeatedly] to make a mockery of the Egyptians—My signs [of divine power] which I have done among them—so that you may know [without any doubt] and recognize [clearly] that I am the Lord.” 3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country. 5They shall cover the [visible] surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the ground, and they will eat the rest of what has remained—that is, the vegetation left after the hail—and they will eat every one of your trees that grows in the field; 6your houses and those of all your servants and of all the Egyptians shall be filled with locusts, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from their birth until this day.’ ” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:4 word by word

כִּ֛י אִם־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ אֶת־עַמִּ֑י הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֥יא מָחָ֛ר אַרְבֶּ֖ה בִּגְבֻלֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Elseכִּי [אם]kîy · that if: exceptH3588
• if thou refuseמָאֵןmâ'ên · refusingH3986
• to let my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• goשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: let goH7971
• behold, to morrowמָחָרmâchâr · tomorrowH4279
• will I bringבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• the locustsאַרְבֶּה'arbeh · locustH697
• into thy coastגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: areaH1366

Cross-references for Exodus 10:4

• Exodus 8:10Then Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses replied, “May it be as you say, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that there is no one like the Lord our God.
• Exodus 9:5The Lord set a [definite] time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”
• Exodus 11:4Then Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘At midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,
• Proverbs 30:27The locusts have no king, Yet all of them go out in groups;
• Joel 1:4What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten [in judgment of Judah].
• Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist, Like the dawn spread over the mountains; There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty, The like of which has never been before Nor will be again afterward Even for years of many generations.
• Revelation 9:3Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power [to hurt] was given to them, like the power which the earth’s scorpions have.

Commentaries on Exodus 10:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4To-morrow will I bring the locusts - The word ארבה arbeh, a locust, is probably from the root רבה rabah, he multiplied, became great, mighty, etc.; because of the immense swarms of these animals by which different countries, especially the east, are infested. The locust, in entomology, belongs to a genus of insects known among naturalists by the term Grylli; and includes three species, crickets, grasshoppers, and those commonly called locusts; and as they…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The locusts - The locust is less common in Egypt than in many eastern countries, yet it is well known, and dreaded as the most terrible of scourges. They come generally from the western deserts, but sometimes from the east and the southeast. No less than nine names are given to the locust in the Bible, of which the word used here is the most common (ארבה 'arbeh ); it signifies “multitudinous,” and whenever it occurs reference is made to its terrible…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4These locusts were a type of grasshopper that migrates. They swarmed from desert areas and could destroy large land areas by eating all the plants.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. to-morrow will I bring the locusts--Moses was commissioned to renew the request, so often made and denied, with an assurance that an unfavorable answer would be followed on the morrow by an invasion of locusts. This species of insect resembles a large, spotted, red and black, double-winged grasshopper, about three inches or less in length, with the two hind legs working like hinged springs of immense strength and elasticity. Perhaps no more terrible…Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 10:4

• Animals
• Locust
• Plague

In the dictionaries

• Cast
• Coast
• Dark
• Locust
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• Residue
• Divorce in the Old Testament
• Egypt
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genesis

Commentaries on Exodus 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings