Exodus 7:14

Plague One: Blood

14 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart [is] {insensitive}; he refuses to release the people.

Exodus 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 7:14

And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened,
&c.] Or "heavy" ^F3, dull and stupid, stiff and inflexible, cannot lift up his heart, or find in his heart to obey the will of God:

he refuseth to let the people go;
which was an instance and proof of the hardness and heaviness of his heart, on which the above miracle had made no impression, to regard what God by his ambassadors had required of him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (dbk) "grave", Montanus, Drusius. So Ainsworth.

Exodus 7:14 In-Context

12 Each threw down his staff, and they became snakes, and Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

13 And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had said.

14 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart [is] {insensitive}; he refuses to release the people.

15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, [he is] going out to the water, and you must wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and you must take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

16 And you must say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Release my people that they may serve me in the desert, and, look, you have not listened until now."

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "heavy"