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

2I’ve also done it so you can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them—and so you will know that I am the Lord.” 3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so they can worship me. If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country. 5They will cover the land so that you won’t be able to see the ground. They will devour what little is left of your crops after the hailstorm, including all the trees growing in the fields. 6They will overrun your palaces and the homes of your officials and all the houses in Egypt. Never in the history of Egypt have your ancestors seen a plague like this one!” And with that, Moses turned and left 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 8:10“Do it tomorrow,” Pharaoh said. “All right,” Moses replied, “it will be as you have said. Then you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
• Exodus 9:5The Lord has already set the time for the plague to begin. He has declared that he will strike the land tomorrow.’”
• Exodus 11:4Moses had announced to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord says: At midnight tonight I will pass through the heart of Egypt.
• Proverbs 30:27Locusts—they have no king, but they march in formation.
• Joel 1:4After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!
• Joel 2:2It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds and deep blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a great and mighty army appears. Nothing like it has been seen before or will ever be seen again.
• Revelation 9:3Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions.

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