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Exodus 10:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go. "
Exodus 10:20
Verse in Context
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18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.
19 The LORD sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
21 The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
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Exodus 10:1
"The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;"
Exodus 10:2
"and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD.”"
Exodus 10:3
"Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me."
Exodus 10:4
"Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,"
Exodus 10:5
"and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field."
Exodus 10:6
"Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh."
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