Exodus 7:3

Exodus 7:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
• New International Version (NIV)But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
• English Standard Version (ESV)But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
• New King James Version (NKJV)And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Context of Exodus 7:3

1So Adonai said to Moses, “See, I have set you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2You are to speak all that I command you and Aaron your brother is to speak to Pharaoh, so that he will let Bnei-Yisrael go out of his land. Yet I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My armies, My people Bnei-Yisrael, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5The Egyptians will know that I am Adonai, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt, and bring out Bnei-Yisrael from among them.”

Exodus 7:3 word by word

וַאֲנִ֥י אַקְשֶׁ֖ה אֶת־לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י אֶת־אֹתֹתַ֛י וְאֶת־מוֹפְתַ֖י בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will hardenקָשָׁהqâshâh · to hardenH7185
• Pharaoh’sפַּרְעֹהpar‛ôh · PharaohH6547
• heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• and multiplyרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• my signsאוֹת'ôth · sign: miraculousH226
• and my wondersמוֹפֵתmôphêth môphêth · wonderH4159
• in the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714

Cross-references for Exodus 7:3

• Exodus 4:21Adonai said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in your hand. Still, I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
• Exodus 4:7Then He said, “Put your hand back into your cloak.” So he put his hand back in, and when he took it out it was restored again as the rest of his skin.
• Exodus 9:16However, I have let you stand for this reason: to show you My power, and that My Name might be proclaimed throughout all the earth.
• Exodus 11:9Adonai had 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 any god ever tried to come to take for himself a nation from within a nation—by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—like all that Adonai your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Deuteronomy 7:19the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which Adonai your God brought you out. So will Adonai your God do to all the peoples you fear.
• Nehemiah 9:10You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all the people of his land, for You knew how insolently they treated them. You made a name for Yourself which remains to this day.
• Psalms 78:43when He displayed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the plain of Zoan.
• Psalms 105:27They performed His signs among them —miracles in the land of Ham.
• Psalms 135:9He sent signs and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and all his servants.
• Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Adonai, awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
• Jeremiah 32:20You set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day in Israel and among mankind, and made Yourself a Name, as to this day.
• Micah 7:15As in the days of your coming out from the land of Egypt I will show him wonders.
• John 4:48Then Yeshua said to him, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you’ll never believe!”
• Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Yeshua ha-Natzrati—a Man authenticated to you by God with mighty deeds and wonders and signs God performed through Him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
• Acts 7:36This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Commentaries on Exodus 7:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I will harden Pharaoh's heart - I will permit his stubbornness and obstinacy still to remain, that I may have the greater opportunity to multiply my wonders in the land, that the Egyptians may know that I only am Jehovah, the self-existent God. See Clarke's note on Exodus 4:21.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Wonders - A word used only of portents performed to prove a divine interposition; they were the credentials of God‘s messengers.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Lord would use miraculous signs and wonders to convince Pharaoh, just as he had promised to use signs to convince the Israelites that they should follow Moses (3:12; 4:5, 8, 9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. I will harden Pharaoh's heart--This would be the result. But the divine message would be the occasion, not the cause of the king's impenitent obduracy.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Exodus 7

• 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