Exodus 7:3

Exodus 7:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
• New International Version (NIV)But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
• English Standard Version (ESV)But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
• New King James Version (NKJV)And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Context of Exodus 7:3

1Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

Exodus 7:3 word by word

וַאֲנִ֥י אַקְשֶׁ֖ה אֶת־לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י אֶת־אֹתֹתַ֛י וְאֶת־מוֹפְתַ֖י בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

• I will hardenקָשָׁהqâshâh · to hardenH7185
• Pharaoh’sפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547
• heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• multiplyרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• My signsאוֹת'ôth · sign: miraculousH226
• and My wondersמוֹפֵתmôphêth môphêth · wonderH4159
• in the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714

Cross-references for Exodus 7:3

• Exodus 4:21The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
• Exodus 4:7Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
• Exodus 9:16But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth.
• Exodus 11:9Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
• Deuteronomy 4:34Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Deuteronomy 7:19the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
• Nehemiah 9:10Then You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, Against all his servants and all the people of his land; For You knew that they acted arrogantly toward them, And made a name for Yourself as it is this day.
• Psalms 78:43When He performed His signs in Egypt And His marvels in the field of Zoan,
• Psalms 105:27They performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham.
• Psalms 135:9He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.
• Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?
• Jeremiah 32:20who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.
• Micah 7:15“As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show you miracles.”
• John 4:48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”
• Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know--
• Acts 7:36This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Commentaries on Exodus 7:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I will harden Pharaoh's heart - I will permit his stubbornness and obstinacy still to remain, that I may have the greater opportunity to multiply my wonders in the land, that the Egyptians may know that I only am Jehovah, the self-existent God. See Clarke's note on Exodus 4:21.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Wonders - A word used only of portents performed to prove a divine interposition; they were the credentials of God‘s messengers.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Lord would use miraculous signs and wonders to convince Pharaoh, just as he had promised to use signs to convince the Israelites that they should follow Moses (3:12; 4:5, 8, 9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. I will harden Pharaoh's heart--This would be the result. But the divine message would be the occasion, not the cause of the king's impenitent obduracy.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Exodus 7

• 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
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings