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Exodus 7:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. "
Exodus 7:4
Verse in Context
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2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
6 Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did.
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Exodus 7:1
"The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet."
Exodus 7:2
"You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."
Exodus 7:3
"I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt."
Exodus 7:5
"The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”"
Exodus 7:6
"Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did."
Exodus 7:7
"Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh."
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