Exodus 11:7

Exodus 11:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
• New International Version (NIV)But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the Lord does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.’

Context of Exodus 11:7

5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 6There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark against either people or animals, so that you may know that the Lord distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.’ 8All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger. 9The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 11:7 word by word

וּלְכֹ֣ל׀ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לֹ֤א יֶֽחֱרַץ־כֶּ֙לֶב֙ לְשֹׁנ֔וֹ לְמֵאִ֖ישׁ וְעַד־בְּהֵמָ֑ה לְמַ֙עַן֙ תֵּֽדְע֔וּן אֲשֶׁר֙ יַפְלֶ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בֵּ֥ין מִצְרַ֖יִם וּבֵ֥ין יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But against any of the childrenבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• shall not a dogכֶּ֫לֶבkeleb · dogH3611
• moveחָרַץchârats · to decideH2782
• his tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongueH3956
• against manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• or beastבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
• that ye may knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• how that the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• doth put a differenceפָּלָהpâlâh · be distinguishedH6395
• between the Egyptiansמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714

Cross-references for Exodus 11:7

• Joshua 10:21Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.
• Job 5:16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
• Exodus 7:22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron – just as the Lord had predicted.
• Exodus 10:23No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
• Malachi 3:18Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
• 1 Corinthians 4:7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Commentaries on Exodus 11:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Not a dog move his tongue - This passage has been generally understood as a proverbial expression, intimating that the Israelites should not only be free from this death, but that they should depart without any kind of molestation. For though there must be much bustle and comparative confusion in the sudden removal of six hundred thousand persons with their wives, children, goods, cattle, etc., yet this should produce so little alarm that even the dogs…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Shall not a dog move his tongue - A proverb expressive of freedom from alarm and immunity front assault.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-10Verses 4-10 The death of all the first-born in Egypt at once: this plague had been the first threatened, but is last executed. See how slow God is to wrath. The plague is foretold, the time is fixed; all their first-born should sleep the sleep of death, not silently, but so as to rouse the families at midnight. The prince was not too high to be reached by it, nor the slaves at the mill too low to be noticed. While angels slew the Egyptians, not so much as…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7In the fourth, fifth, seventh, and ninth plagues, the Lord made a clear distinction between his people and the Egyptians (8:23; 9:6, 26; 10:23). These events clearly resulted from the express activity of God and were not random natural disasters.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue--No town or village in Egypt or in the East generally is free from the nuisance of dogs, who prowl about the streets and make the most hideous noise at any passers-by at night. What an emphatic significance does the knowledge of this circumstance give to this fact in the sacred record, that on the awful night that was coming, when the air should be rent with the piercing shrieks of…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Exodus 11

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings