New English Translation
Exodus 3:20
20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.
Exodus 3:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
- New International Version (NIV)So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.
Context of Exodus 3:20
18“The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ 19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force. So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you. 21“I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed. 22Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters – thus you will plunder Egypt!”
Read all of Exodus 3Exodus 3:20 word by word
וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֤י אֶת־יָדִי֙ וְהִכֵּיתִ֣י אֶת־מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּכֹל֙ נִפְלְאֹתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֖ן יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶתְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And I will stretch outשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: reachH7971
- my handיָדyâd · handH3027
- and smiteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
- Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
- with all my wondersפָּלָאpâlâ' · to wonderH6381
- which I will doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- in the midstקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: amongH7130
- thereof: and afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
Cross-references for Exodus 3:20
- Exodus 6:6Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
- Exodus 7:5Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.
- Exodus 9:15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
- Ezekiel 20:33As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.
- Exodus 7:3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,
- Exodus 11:9The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 4:34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
- Deuteronomy 6:22And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.
- Nehemiah 9:10You performed awesome signs against Pharaoh, against his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that the Egyptians had acted presumptuously against them. You made for yourself a name that is celebrated to this day.
- Psalms 105:27They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 106:22amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea.
- Psalms 135:8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.
- Isaiah 19:22The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their prayers and heal them.
- Jeremiah 32:20You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt which have had lasting effect. By this means you gained both in Israel and among humankind a renown that lasts to this day.
- Acts 7:36This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Acts 7:1Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?”
Commentaries on Exodus 3:20
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make them willing in this day of power. As to Pharaoh, Moses is here told that petitions and persuasions, and humble complaints, would not prevail with him; nor a mighty hand stretched out in signs and wonders. But those will certainly be broken by the power…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-21God’s power would be obvious, and the Egyptians would not only allow the Hebrews to leave, they would pay them to do so.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-2210-22. Come now therefore, and I will send thee--Considering the patriotic views that had formerly animated the breast of Moses, we might have anticipated that no mission could have been more welcome to his heart than to be employed in the national emancipation of Israel. But he evinced great reluctance to it and stated a variety of objections [Ex 3:11, 13; 4:1, 10] all of which were successfully met and removed--and the happy issue of his labors was…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 3
- 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
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