Exodus 10:11

Exodus 10:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
• English Standard Version (ESV)No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Never! Only the men may go and worship the Lord, since that is what you requested.” And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace.

Context of Exodus 10:11

9Moses answered, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to the Lord.” 10Pharaoh said, “The Lord be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil. No! Have only the men go and worship the Lord, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence. 12And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.” 13So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

Exodus 10:11 word by word

לֹ֣א כֵ֗ן לְכֽוּ־נָ֤א הַגְּבָרִים֙ וְעִבְד֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י אֹתָ֖הּ אַתֶּ֣ם מְבַקְשִׁ֑ים וַיְגָ֣רֶשׁ אֹתָ֔ם מֵאֵ֖ת פְּנֵ֥י פַרְעֹֽה׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Not so: goיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• menגָּבֶרgeber · great manH1397
• and serveעָבַד‛âbad · to serve: ministerH5647
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• for that ye did desireבָּקַשׁbâqash · to seekH1245
• And they were driven outגָּרַשׁgârash · to drive out: drive outH1644
• from Pharaoh’sפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547
• presenceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440

Cross-references for Exodus 10:11

• Psalms 52:3You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
• Psalms 119:69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.
• Exodus 10:28Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”
• Exodus 5:4But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!”

Commentaries on Exodus 10:11

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-11The officials did not have royal honor to protect. So they were willing to learn from what had happened and to let the men go. Pharaoh resisted again. He wanted to protect his public honor. He said the men could go only if they left their families behind. In this way, he hoped they would be forced to return. Moses had never said they would come back. They said they were going into the wilderness to worship God. But once slaves are free, they do not…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-117-11. Pharaoh's servants said--Many of his courtiers must have suffered serious losses from the late visitations, and the prospect of such a calamity as that which was threatened and the magnitude of which former experience enabled them to realize, led them to make a strong remonstrance with the king. Finding himself not seconded by his counsellors in his continued resistance, he recalled Moses and Aaron, and having expressed his consent to their…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Cast
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• Locust
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• Residue
• Anthropology
• 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