Exodus 10:20

20 And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}.

Exodus 10:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 10:20

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart
For as yet he had not brought all his judgments on him he designed to bring:

so that he would not let the children of Israel go:
though he had promised to do it, and that he would never offend more in this way.

Exodus 10:20 In-Context

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to Yahweh.

19 And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind} and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea}, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

20 And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}.

21 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."

22 And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"