Exodus 9:21

21 But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.

Exodus 9:21 in Other Translations

21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

21 but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

21 But those who paid no attention to the word of the LORD left theirs out in the open.

21 but those who didn't take God's word seriously left their workers and animals out in the field.

21 but those who didn't take the Lord's word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

Exodus 9:21 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:21

And he that regarded not the word of the Lord
Or "set not his heart" ^F6 "unto it", took no notice of it, but treated it with the utmost contempt; and of this sort it may be thought there were the far greatest number: everyone of this cast left his servants and cattle in the field;
let them remain there, and took no care of them, nor thought about them, and so took no methods to preserve them; in which he acted a foolish part, to his own detriment and loss.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wbl Mv al) "non posuit cor suum", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Fagius.

Exodus 9:21 In-Context

19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’ ”

20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.

21 But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.

22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”

23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt;

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 19:14; Ezekiel 33:4-5