Êxodo 9:15

15 Agora, por pouco, teria eu estendido a mão e ferido a ti e ao teu povo com pestilência, e tu terias sido destruído da terra;

Êxodo 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:15

For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and
thy people with pestilence
Which yet we never find was done; for though this by many is referred to the slaying of the firstborn, yet it is not certain that this was done by the pestilence: besides, Pharaoh was not then smitten, nor his people, only their firstborn; wherefore these words are to be rendered, not in the future, but in the imperfect or preterpluperfect tense, thus; "for when now I stretched out my hand, or if now I had stretched out my hand to smite thee and thy people with pestilence" ^F1; that is, at the time when he smote the cattle with the murrain or pestilence, when he could as well have smote him and his people with it; there was no want of power in God to do it, and had he done it, it would have been all over with him and them: and thou shall be cut off from the earth;
or "thou hadst been, or wouldest have been cut off from the earth" ^F2 must have perished out of it, and been no more in the land of the living.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (ytxlv hte yk) "modo enim cum extendi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, "vel si extendissem", Fagius, Cocceius; so Jarchi, Gersom, Targ. Onk. & Jon.
F2 (dxktw) "sic fuisses excisus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius.

Êxodo 9:15 In-Context

13 Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: Levanta-te pela manhã cedo, põe-te diante de Faraó, e dize-lhe: Assim diz o Senhor, o Deus dos hebreus: Deixa ir o meu povo, para que me sirva;

14 porque desta vez enviarei todas as a minhas pragas sobre o teu coração, e sobre os teus servos, e sobre o teu povo, para que saibas que não há outro como eu em toda a terra.

15 Agora, por pouco, teria eu estendido a mão e ferido a ti e ao teu povo com pestilência, e tu terias sido destruído da terra;

16 mas, na verdade, para isso te hei mantido com vida, para te mostrar o meu poder, e para que o meu nome seja anunciado em toda a terra.

17 Tu ainda te exaltas contra o meu povo, não o deixando ir?