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And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7:3 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
  • BSB But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
  • NKJV And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
  • NASB But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
  • NLT But I will make Pharaoh’s heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

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Quick answer

God announces He will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply signs in Egypt. The plagues will display God's power amid Pharaoh's resistance.

Overview

God foretells both Pharaoh's hardening and the multiplication of His wonders, setting the theological frame for the coming plagues. Scripture elsewhere also says Pharaoh hardened his own heart, and faithful Christians have long held these truths together: Pharaoh is morally responsible even as God sovereignly works out His purpose. This same tension appears in Romans 9, where Paul cites Pharaoh to display God's freedom to show both judgment and mercy in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Exod 4:21And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
  • Exod 11:9And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
  • 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.
  • Ps 135:9Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
  • John 4:48Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
  • Rom 15:19Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
  • Ps 105:27–36They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • Ps 78:43–51How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
  • Acts 2:22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
  • 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;
  • Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
  • Exod 9:16And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
  • 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?
  • Exod 4:29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
  • Exod 4:7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
  • Deut 7:19The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
  • 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.
  • Mic 7:15According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Exodus 7:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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