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 in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.” 3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me! But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. 5They will cover the surface of the earth, so that you will be unable to see the ground. They will eat the remainder of what escaped – what is left over for you – from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field. 6They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from 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 8:10He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
• Exodus 9:5The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”
• Exodus 11:4Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
• Proverbs 30:27locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;
• Joel 1:4What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!
• Joel 2:2It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
• Revelation 9:3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

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