Exodus 9:20

THE MESSAGE

All of Pharaoh's servants who had respect for God 's word got their workers and animals under cover as fast as they could, but those who didn't take God 's word seriously left their workers and animals out in the field.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Those who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Par`oh made their servants and their cattle flee into the houses.

King James Version
He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Lexham English Bible
Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses.

New Century Version
Some of the king's officers respected the word of the Lord and hurried to bring their slaves and animals inside.

New English Translation
Those of Pharaoh's servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

Amplified Bible
Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses and shelters;

New American Standard Bible
Everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring his servants and his livestock into the houses;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Such then as feared the word of the Lorde among the seruants of Pharaoh, made his seruants and his cattell flee into the houses:

Legacy Standard Bible
The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

Contemporary English Version
Some of the king's officials were frightened by what the Lord had said, and they hurried off to make sure their slaves and animals were safe.

Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever among Pharaoh's servants feared what Adonai had said had his slaves and livestock escape into the houses;

Darby Translation
He that feared the word of Jehovah among the bondmen of Pharaoh made his bondmen and his cattle flee into the houses.

Easy-to-Read Version
Some of Pharaoh's officials paid attention to the Lord 's message. They quickly put all of their animals and slaves into houses.

English Standard Version
Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,

George Lamsa Translation
He who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh brought his servants and his cattle into the house.

Good News Translation
Some of the king's officials were afraid because of what the Lord had said, and they brought their slaves and animals indoors for shelter.

Christian Standard Bible®
Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

Literal Translation
Of the servants of Pharaoh, the one who feared the Word of Jehovah made his slaves and his livestock flee to the houses.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now who so feared the worde of the LORDE amonge Pharaos seruauntes, caused his seruauntes & catell to flye in to the houses:

American Standard Version
He that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Bible in Basic English
Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as many as feared the worde of the Lorde amongest the seruauntes of Pharao, made their seruauntes and their beastes flee into the houses.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses;

King James Version (1611)
Hee that feared the word of the Lord amongst the seruants of Pharaoh, made his seruants and his cattell flee into the houses.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He of the servants of Pharao that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.

English Revised Version
He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Berean Standard Bible
Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that dredde `the Lordis word, of the seruauntis of Farao, made his seruauntis and werk beestis fle in to housis;

Young's Literal Translation
He who is fearing the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh hath caused his servants and his cattle to flee unto the houses;

Update Bible Version
He that feared the word of Yahweh among the slaves of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that feared the word of the LORD, among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

World English Bible
Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their cattle flee into the houses.

New King James Version
He who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee to the houses.

New Living Translation
Some of Pharaoh's officials were afraid because of what the Lord had said. They quickly brought their servants and livestock in from the fields.

New Life Bible
Any of the people of Egypt who feared the word of the Lord made his servants and animals run to the houses.

New Revised Standard
Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried their slaves and livestock off to a secure place.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that feared the word of Yahweh, among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee, under shelter:

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao’s servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses:

Revised Standard Version
Then he who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

Contextual Overview

¹³ God said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘ God , the God of the Hebrews, says: Release my people so they can worship me. This time I am going to strike you and your servants and your people with the full force of my power so you'll get it into your head that there's no one like me anywhere in all the Earth. You know that by now I could have struck you and your people with deadly disease and there would be nothing left of you, not a trace. But for one reason only I've kept you on your feet: To make you recognize my power so that my reputation spreads in all the Earth. You are still building yourself up at my people's expense. You are not letting them go. So here's what's going to happen: At this time tomorrow I'm sending a terrific hailstorm—there's never been a storm like this in Egypt from the day of its founding until now. So get your livestock under roof—everything exposed in the open fields, people and animals, will die when the hail comes down.'" ²⁰All of Pharaoh's servants who had respect for God 's word got their workers and animals under cover as fast as they could, but those who didn't take God 's word seriously left their workers and animals out in the field.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 22:23, Jonah 3:5, Jonah 3:6, Mark 13:14-16, Hebrews 11:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:34 - temptations 2 Kings 6:10 - sent to the place Proverbs 27:12 - General Habakkuk 3:2 - I have Matthew 24:16 - General Luke 21:21 - flee Acts 27:11 - believed

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made. He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.

Genesis 4:2
Then she had another baby, Abel. Abel was a herdsman and Cain a farmer.

Genesis 9:18
The sons of Noah who came out of the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah; from these three the whole Earth was populated.

Genesis 9:24
When Noah woke up with his hangover, he learned what his youngest son had done. He said, Cursed be Canaan! A slave of slaves, a slave to his brothers! Blessed be God , the God of Shem, but Canaan shall be his slave. God prosper Japheth, living spaciously in the tents of Shem. But Canaan shall be his slave.

Deuteronomy 28:30
You'll get engaged to a woman and another man will take her for his mistress; you'll build a house and never live in it; you'll plant a garden and never eat so much as a carrot; you'll watch your ox get butchered and not get a single steak from it; your donkey will be stolen from in front of you and you'll never see it again; your sheep will be sent off to your enemies and no one will lift a hand to help you.

Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Proverbs 12:11
The one who stays on the job has food on the table; the witless chase whims and fancies.

Proverbs 24:30
One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout; They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down. I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened: "A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh,.... Who, if they had not the true fear of God, and were not sincere proselytes, yet had a servile fear of him, and dreaded his word, his threatening, his denunciations of judgments and predictions of future punishments; of which they had had many instances wherein they were fulfilled, and therefore had reason to fear that this also would, even the word that had been just now spoken:

made his servants and cattle flee into the houses; called home his servants, and drove his cattle in great haste out of the fields, and brought them home as fast as he could, and housed them; in which he acted the wise and prudent part, and showed a concern for his servants and his cattle, as well as believed the word of the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a temporary, but real, change in Pharaoh’s feelings.

Exodus 9:14

All my plagues - This applies to all the plagues which follow; the effect of each was foreseen and foretold. The words “at this time” point to a rapid and continuous succession of blows. The plagues which precede appear to have been spread over a considerable time; the first message of Moses was delivered after the early harvest of the year before, when the Israelites could gather stubble, i. e. in May and April: the second mission, when the plagues began, was probably toward the end of June, and they went on at intervals until the winter; this plague was in February; see Exodus 9:31.

Exodus 9:15

For now ... - Better, For now indeed, had I stretched forth my hand and smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence, then hadst thou been cut off from the earth. Exodus 9:16 gives the reason why God had not thus inflicted a summary punishment once for all.

Exodus 9:16

Have I raised thee up - See the margin. God kept Pharaoh “standing”, i. e. permitted him to live and hold out until His own purpose was accomplished.

Exodus 9:18

A very grievous hail - The miracle consisted in the magnitude of the infliction and in its immediate connection with the act of Moses.

Exodus 9:19

In Egypt the cattle are sent to pasture in the open country from January to April, when the grass is abundant. They are kept in stalls for the rest of the year.

Exodus 9:20

The word of the Lord - This gives the first indication that the warnings had a salutary effect upon the Egyptians.

Exodus 9:27

The Lord - Thus, for the first time, Pharaoh explicitly recognizes Yahweh as God (compare Exodus 5:2).

Exodus 9:29

The earth is the Lord’s - This declaration has a direct reference to Egyptian superstition. Each god was held to have special power within a given district; Pharaoh had learned that Yahweh was a god, he was now to admit that His power extended over the whole earth. The unity and universality of the divine power, though occasionally recognized in ancient Egyptian documents, were overlaid at a very early period by systems alternating between Polytheism and Pantheism.

Exodus 9:31

The flax was bolled - i. e. in blossom. This marks the time. In the north of Egypt the barley ripens and flax blossoms about the middle of February, or at the latest early in March, and both are gathered in before April, when the wheat harvest begins. The cultivation of flax must have been of great importance; linen was preferred to any material, and exclusively used by the priests. It is frequently mentioned on Egyptian monuments.

Exodus 9:32

Rie - Rather, “spelt,” the common food of the ancient Egyptians, now called “doora” by the natives, and the only grain represented on the sculptures: the name, however, occurs on the monuments very frequently in combination with other species.