Keluaran 10:21

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Musa: "Ulurkanlah tanganmu ke langit, supaya datang gelap meliputi tanah Mesir, sehingga orang dapat meraba gelap itu."

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Musa: "Ulurkanlah tanganmu ke langit, supaya datang gelap meliputi tanah Mesir, sehingga orang dapat meraba gelap itu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu firman Tuhan kepada Musa: Unjuklah tanganmu arah ke langit, maka akan jadi kelam kabut dalam negeri Mesir, sehingga orang meraba-raba kelak sebab kegelapan itu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Stretch: Exodus 9:22

darkness: As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160. Psalms 35:6, Psalms 78:49, Psalms 105:28, Proverbs 4:19, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Ecclesiastes 6:4, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22, Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:33, Luke 23:44, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:17, Jude 1:6, Jude 1:13, Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:11

even darkness which may be felt: Heb. that one may feel darkness

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:19 - stretch Job 9:7 - commandeth Job 36:32 - General Job 38:15 - from Isaiah 5:30 - if one look Isaiah 45:7 - create darkness Isaiah 50:3 - General Jeremiah 13:16 - gross Ezekiel 32:7 - I will cover the heaven Amos 5:8 - maketh Amos 8:9 - and I Acts 27:20 - neither Revelation 8:12 - and the day Revelation 9:2 - and the sun

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... About the eleventh day of the month Abib:

stretch out thine hand toward heaven; where the luminaries are, and from whence light comes:

that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt; that is, what caused it, the gross vapours and thick fogs; for otherwise darkness itself, being a privation of light, cannot be felt: Onkelos paraphrases it,

"after that the darkness of the night is removed;''

so Jonathan; that it might appear to be different from that, and be much grosser.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Darkness - This infliction was specially calculated to affect the spirits of the Egyptians, whose chief object of worship was the Sun-god; and its suddenness and severity in connection with the act of Moses mark it as a preternatural withdrawal of light. Yet, it has an analogy in physical phenomena. After the vernal equinox the southwest wind from the desert blows some 50 days, not however, continuously but at intervals, lasting generally some two or three days. It fills the atmosphere with dense masses of fine sand, bringing on a darkness far deeper than that of our worst fogs in winter. The consternation of Pharaoh proves that, familiar as he may have been with the phenomenon, no previous occurrence had prepared him for its intensity and duration, and that he recognized it as a supernatural visitation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

The NINTH plague - THICK DARKNESS

Verse Exodus 10:21. Darkness which may be felt. — Probably this was occasioned by a superabundance of aqueous vapours floating in the atmosphere, which were so thick as to prevent the rays of the sun from penetrating through them; an extraordinarily thick mist supernaturally, i.e., miraculously, brought on. An awful emblem of the darkened state of the Egyptians and their king.