Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Parallel translations
- WEB Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
- BSB But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- NKJV Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
- NASB For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
- NLT If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.
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Quick answer
God warns that refusal will bring a plague of locusts upon Egypt. The eighth plague is announced in advance.
Overview
The conditional warning again gives Pharaoh genuine opportunity to relent before judgment falls. Locusts were a feared devastation in the ancient world, capable of stripping a land bare. The advance notice authenticates the plague as God's deliberate act, not a chance swarm. The escalating judgments press toward the climactic confrontation over the firstborn.
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Cross-references · 10
- Rev 9:3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
- Joel 2:25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
- Exod 9:5And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
- Exod 11:4–5And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
- Exod 9:18Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
- Exod 8:23And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
- Joel 1:4–7That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
- Prov 30:27The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
- Exod 8:10And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
- Joel 2:2–11A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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