I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
- BSB So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.
- NKJV So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.
- NASB So I will reach out with My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.
- NLT So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians, performing all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go.
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Quick answer
God promises to strike Egypt with His wonders, after which Pharaoh will let Israel go. God's mighty acts will compel the release.
Overview
The "wonders" anticipate the ten plagues that will display God's supremacy over Egypt and its gods. Pharaoh's eventual release comes not from goodwill but from God's overwhelming power. This assures Moses that the outcome rests on God's hand, not on human persuasion.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Exod 9:15For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
- Deut 6:22and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
- Neh 9:10and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
- Exod 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
- Exod 12:31–33He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
- Ps 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Exod 11:8–9All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you”; and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
- Ps 105:38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
- Exod 6:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
- Judg 6:8Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.
- Exod 11:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
- Exod 7:3–5I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
- Isa 19:22Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
- Ps 135:8–9Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;
- Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Gen 15:14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
- Ezek 20:33As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.
- Jer 32:20–21who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;
- Judg 8:16He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
- Exod 12:39They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
- Acts 7:1–13The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
- Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
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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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