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But I will make Pharaoh’s heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7:3 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
  • KJV And 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.

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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 4:21Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
  • Exod 11:9Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
  • 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.
  • Ps 135:9Who sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
  • John 4:48Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
  • Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
  • Ps 105:27–36They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • Ps 78:43–51how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
  • Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
  • 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;
  • Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
  • Exod 9:16but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
  • 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?
  • Exod 4:29Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 4:7He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
  • Deut 7:19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
  • 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.
  • Mic 7:15“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous 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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