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Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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New King James Version

Exodus 9:2

For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them,

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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,
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 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 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, "Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and still hold them, 3 behold, the hand of the LORD will be on your cattle in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep--a very severe pestilence. 4 And the LORD will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.""' 5 Then the LORD appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land." 6 So the LORD did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died. 7 Then Pharaoh sent, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh became hard, and he did not let the 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
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 2:19
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Genesis 9:8
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
Genesis 9:20
And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 35:5
And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Leviticus 26:6
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land.
Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.

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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