🔥WEB · Exodus 9:2
What does Exodus 9:2 mean?
"For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,"
— Exodus 9:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
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