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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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 7:36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- Exod 9:15For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
- Deut 6:22And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
- Neh 9:10And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
- Exod 6:6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, 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 a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
- Exod 12:31–33And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
- Ps 105:27They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Exod 11:8–9And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
- Ps 105:38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
- Exod 6:1Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
- Judg 6:8That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
- Exod 11:1And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
- Exod 7:3–5And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- Isa 26:11LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
- Isa 19:22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
- Ps 135:8–9Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
- Deut 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Gen 15:14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- Ezek 20:33As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
- Jer 32:20–21Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
- Judg 8:16And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
- Exod 12:39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
- Acts 7:1–13Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
- Ps 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
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