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Myles Coverdale Bible

Exodus 9:2

Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Plague;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Providence of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Plagues of Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
King James Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Lexham English Bible
But if you are refusing to release and you still are keeping hold of them,
New Century Version
If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
New English Translation
For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
Amplified Bible
"But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
New American Standard Bible
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
Legacy Standard Bible
For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Contemporary English Version
If you keep refusing,
Complete Jewish Bible
If you refuse to let them go and persist in holding on to them,
Darby Translation
For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,
Easy-to-Read Version
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
English Standard Version
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
George Lamsa Translation
For if you refuse to let them go (and until now you have withheld them),
Good News Translation
If you again refuse to let them go,
Christian Standard Bible®
But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,
Literal Translation
And if you refuse to send away, and you still hold onto them,
American Standard Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Bible in Basic English
For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou refuse to let them go, and wylt holde them styll,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
King James Version (1611)
For if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt hold them still,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:
English Revised Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Berean Standard Bible
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to restrain them,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that if thou forsakist yit, and withholdist hem, lo!
Young's Literal Translation
for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
Update Bible Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,
Webster's Bible Translation
For if thou shalt refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
World English Bible
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
New King James Version
For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,
New Living Translation
If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,
New Life Bible
For if you will not let them go, and still hold them,
New Revised Standard
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go, - and still art holding them fast,
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
Revised Standard Version
For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

Contextual Overview

1 The LORDE sayde vnto Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speake vnto him: Thus sayeth the LORDE God of ye Hebrues: let my people go, yt they maye serue me. 2 Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer, 3 beholde, the hande of the LORDE shalbe vpon thy catell in the felde, vpon horses, vpon Asses, vpon Camels, vpon oxen, vpon shepe with a very sore pestilence. 4 And ye LORDE shall make a diuysion betwene the catell of the Israelites & the Egipcians, so yt there shal nothinge dye of all that the children of Israel haue. 5 And ye LORDE appoynted a tyme, and sayde: Tomorow shal the LORDE do this vpon earth. 6 And the LORDE dyd the same on the morow. And there dyed of all maner of catell of the Egipcians: but of ye catell of ye childre of Israel there dyed not one. 7 And Pharao sent thither, & beholde, there was not one of the catell of Israel deed. But Pharaos hert was hardened, so yt he let not ye people go.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 4:23, Exodus 8:2, Exodus 10:4, Leviticus 26:14-16, Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:27, Leviticus 26:28, Psalms 7:11, Psalms 7:12, Psalms 68:21, Isaiah 1:20, Romans 2:8, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22, Revelation 16:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:5 - Peradventure Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Job 20:10 - his hands Jeremiah 50:33 - they refused

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and sayde vnto them: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the earth, and subdue it, & haue domynion ouer the fish of the see, and ouer the foules of the ayre, and ouer all the beastes that crepe vpo the earth.
Genesis 2:19
And whan God the LORDE had made of the earth all maner beastes of the felde, & all maner foules vnder the heaue, he brought them vnto man, to se what he wolde call the: For as ma called all maner of liuinge soules, so are their names.
Genesis 9:4
Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude, wherin the soule is:
Genesis 9:8
Farthermore, God sayde vnto Noe and to his sonnes wt him:
Genesis 9:20
Noe beganne to take hede vnto ye tyllinge of the grounde, & planted a vyniarde.
Genesis 9:22
Now when Ha the father of Canaan sawe his fathers preuities, he tolde his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:23
The toke Sem and Iaphet a mantell and put it vpo both their shulders, and wente backwarde, and couered their fathers secretes: & their faces were turned asyde, yt they shulde not se their fathers preuyties.
Genesis 35:5
& departed. And there came a feare of God vpon the cities that laye roude aboute, so that they folowed not after ye sonnes of Iacob.
Leviticus 26:6
I wil geue peace in youre londe, so that ye shall slepe, and no man shall make you afrayed. I wyl ryd euell beestes out of youre londe, and there shall no swerde go thorow youre londe.
Leviticus 26:22
& wyl sende wylde beestes amoge you, which shal robbe you, and destroie youre catell, and make you fewer, and youre hye waye shal be come waist.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For if thou refuse to let them go,.... Continue to refuse, as he had done:

and wilt hold them still; in the land, and under his dominion and oppression.


 
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