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Exodus 3:20

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20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
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Exodus 3:20 in Other Translations

KJV
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
ESV
20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.
NLT
20 So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians, performing all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go.
MSG
20 so I'll intervene and hit Egypt where it hurts - oh, my miracles will send them reeling! - after which they'll be glad to send you off.
CSB
20 I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.

Exodus 3:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 3:20

And I will stretch out my hand
Or "therefore" F5 he would stretch out his mighty hand, exert his almighty power; and for this purpose was Pharaoh raised up, and his heart hardened, that God might show his power in him, and on him: and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will do in the midst
thereof:
with those wondrous plagues, the amazing effects of his almighty power, which were wrought by him in the midst of Egypt, by which their land, their rivers, their persons, and their cattle, were smitten: and after that he will let you go;
this is said for their encouragement, that their faith and patience might hold out, who otherwise seeing him so obstinate and inflexible, might be ready to despair of ever succeeding.

FOOTNOTES:

F5 (w) "ideo", "propterea", Noldius, p. 279.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Exodus 3:20 In-Context

18 “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’
19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
21 “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.
22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”

Cross References 3

  • 1. Exodus 6:1,6; Exodus 7:4-5; Exodus 9:15; Exodus 13:3,9,14,16; Exodus 15:6,12; Deuteronomy 4:34,37; Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 26:8; 2 Kings 17:36; 2 Chronicles 6:32; Psalms 118:15-16; Psalms 136:12; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 63:12; Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 51:25; Da Exodus 9:15
  • 2. Exodus 4:21; Exodus 7:3; Exodus 11:9,10; Exodus 15:11; Exodus 34:10; Numbers 14:11; Deuteronomy 3:24; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 6:22; Nehemiah 9:10; Psalms 71:19; Psalms 72:18; Psalms 77:14; Psalms 78:43; Psalms 86:10; Psalms 105:27; 10Deuteronomy 6:22; Psalms 135:9; Psalms 136:4; Jeremiah 32:20; Micah 7:15; Ac Exodus 7:36
  • 3. Exodus 11:1; Exodus 12:31-33
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