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Exodus 10:21

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Yahweh 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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Exodus 10:21 in other translations

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Exodus 10:21 · American Standard Version

Exodus 10:21 in context

  1. 19Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
  2. 20But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
  3. 21Yahweh 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.”
  4. 22Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
  5. 23They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.