He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
Parallel translations
- KJV He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- BSB He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
- NKJV He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His word.
- NASB He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.
- NLT The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people go.
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- Ps 99:7He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
- Luke 23:44–45It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
- 2 Pet 2:4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
- Ezek 2:4–8The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’
- Exod 10:21–23Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
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