God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 28:27
27The Lord will strike you with the same boils that plagued the Egyptians. He will strike you with hemorrhoids, sores, and itching that won’t go away.
Deuteronomy 28:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:27
25The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms in the world. 26Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away. The Lord will strike you with the same boils that plagued the Egyptians. He will strike you with hemorrhoids, sores, and itching that won’t go away. 28The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. 29You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:27 word by word
יַכְּכָ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה בִּשְׁחִ֤ין מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ וּבַטְּחֹרִ֔ים וּבַגָּרָ֖ב וּבֶחָ֑רֶס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תוּכַ֖ל לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- will smiteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
- thee with the botchשְׁחִיןshechîyn · boilH7822
- of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
- and with the emerodsעֹ֫פֶל‛ôphel · hillH6076
- and with the emerodsטְחֹרţechôr · tumorH2914
- and with the scabגָּרָבgârâb · scabH1618
- and with the itchחֶ֫רֶסcheres charsâh · itchH2775
- whereof thou canstיָכֹלyâkôl yâkôl · be ableH3201
- not be healedרָפָאrâphâ' râphâh · to healH7495
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:27
- Deuteronomy 28:35The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with severe boils that can’t be cured. The boils will cover your whole body from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
- Exodus 9:9They will become a fine dust throughout Egypt. The dust will cause boils to break into open sores on people and animals throughout Egypt.”
- Exodus 15:26He said, “If you will listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer, because I am the Lord, who heals you.”
- 1 Samuel 5:6The Lord dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.
- Psalms 78:66He struck his enemies from behind and disgraced them forever.
- Leviticus 13:2“If anyone has a sore, a rash, or an irritated area on his skin that turns into an infectious skin disease, he must be taken to the priest Aaron or to one of his sons who are also priests.
- Leviticus 21:20who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles.
- Isaiah 3:17The Lord will cause sores ⌞to appear⌟ on the heads of the women of Zion, and the Lord will make their foreheads bare.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27The Lord will smite thee with the botch - שחין shechin, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job ii., one of the Hexapla versions renders it , the elephantiasis, a disease the most horrid that can possibly afflict human nature. In this disorder, the whole body is covered with a most loathsome scurf; the joints are all preternaturally enlarged, and the skin swells up and grows into folds like that of an elephant, whence the disease has its name. The skin…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-68Verses 15-68 The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-26 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20 Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-44Verses 15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27the boils of Egypt: See Exodus 9:8–12. tumors: Compare 1 Samuel 5:6, 9, 12. scabs: This might refer to a skin condition called dermatitis. The itch is also a symptom of dermatitis.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. the botch of Egypt--a troublesome eruption, marked by red pimples, to which, at the rising of the Nile, the Egyptians are subject. emerods--fistulæ or piles. scab--scurvy. itch--the disease commonly known by that name; but it is far more malignant in the East than is ever witnessed in our part of the world.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28
- 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
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