Exodus 10:20

20 But the LORD hardened Par`oh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el go.

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 He went out from Par`oh, and prayed to the LORD.

19 The LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Sea of Suf. There remained not one arbeh in all the borders of Mitzrayim.

20 But the LORD hardened Par`oh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisra'el go.

21 The LORD said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Mitzrayim, even darkness which may be felt."

22 Moshe stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Mitzrayim three days.