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

2You will be able to tell your children and grandchildren exactly how I treated the Egyptians and what miraculous signs I did among them. This is how you will all know that I am the Lord.” 3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself in my presence? Let my people go to worship me. If you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country. 5They will cover the land so that the ground can’t be seen. They will eat everything left by the hail, including every tree still standing in the fields. 6They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and those of all the Egyptians. Your parents and ancestors never saw anything like this from the time they first came here until now.” 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 8:10“Pray for me tomorrow,” Pharaoh said. Moses replied, “It will be as you say so that you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
• Exodus 9:5The Lord set a definite time. He said, “Tomorrow I will do this.”
• Exodus 11:4Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go out among the Egyptians.
• Proverbs 30:27Locusts have no king, yet all of them divide into swarms by instinct.
• Joel 1:4What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.
• Joel 2:2It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and overcast skies. A large and mighty army will spread over the mountains like the dawn. Nothing like this has ever happened. Nothing like this will ever happen again.
• Revelation 9:3Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of earthly scorpions.

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
• Mighty
• 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