Exodus 10:4

4 If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

Exodus 10:4 in Other Translations

KJV
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
ESV
4 For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
NLT
4 If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.
MSG
4 If you refuse to release my people, watch out; tomorrow I'm bringing locusts into your country.
CSB
4 But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

Exodus 10:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 10:4

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go
He threatens him with the following plague, the plague of the locusts, which Pliny F24 calls "denrum irae pestis":

behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast;
according to Bishop Usher F25 this was about the seventh day of the month Abib, that this plague was threatened, and on the morrow, which was the eighth day, it was brought; but Aben Ezra relates it as an opinion of Japhet an Hebrew writer, that there were many days between the plague of the hail, and the plague of the locusts, that there might be time for the grass and plants to spring out of the field; but this seems not necessary, for these locusts only ate of what were left of the hail, as in the following verse.


FOOTNOTES:

F24 Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.
F25 Annales Vet. Test. p. 21.

Exodus 10:4 In-Context

2 that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD.”
3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
4 If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
5 They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.
6 They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’ ” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Exodus 8:2; Exodus 9:2
  • 2. Deuteronomy 28:38; Psalms 105:34; Proverbs 30:27; Joel 1:4; Revelation 9:3
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