Exodus 10:3

And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֣ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
Aaron	וְאַהֲרֹן֮ ve.'a.ha.Ron	H175	Aharon · conjunction + proper noun, a man's name
in	וַיָּבֹ֨א vai.ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Pharaoh	פַּרְעֹה֒ par.'Oh	H6547	Paroh · noun, masculine singular absolute
said	וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ vai.yo.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
saith	אָמַ֤ר 'a.Mar	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֵ֣י 'e.lo.Hei	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct
Hebrews	הָֽעִבְרִ֔ים ha.'iv.Rim	H5680	an Eberite (i.e. Hebrew) or descendant of Eber · definite article + noun, gentilic masculine plural absolute
long	מָתַ֣י ma.Tai	H4970	properly · interrogative particle
refuse	מֵאַ֔נְתָּ me.'An.ta	H3985	to refuse · verb, piel perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
humble	לֵעָנֹ֖ת le.'a.Not	H6031	to depress literally or figuratively · preposition + verb, niphal infinitive construct
before	מִפָּנָ֑י mi.pa.Nai	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
people	עַמִּ֖י 'a.Mi	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
go	שַׁלַּ֥ח sha.Lach	H7971	to send away · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
serve	וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי ve.Ya.'av.Du.ni	H5647	to work (in any sense) · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son…
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repenta…
Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we…
Exodus 9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Here, I. Moses is instructed. We may well suppose that he, for his part, was much astonished both at Pharaoh's obstinacy and at God's severity, and could not but be compassionately concerned for the desolations of Egypt, and at a loss to conceive what this contest would come to at last. Now here God tells him what he designed, not only Israel's release, but the magnifying of his own name: That thou mayest tell in thy writings, which shall continue to the world's end, what I have wrought in Egypt, Exo 10:1, Exo 10:2. The ten plagues of Egypt must be inflicted, that they may be recorded for the generations to come as undeniable proofs, 1. Of God's overruling power in the kingdom of nature, his…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:2

And that thou mayest tell . . . of thy son, and of thy son's son, &c.--There was a further and higher reason for the infliction of those awful judgments, namely, that the knowledge of them there, and the permanent record of them still, might furnish a salutary and impressive lesson to the Church down to the latest ages. Worldly historians might have described them as extraordinary occurrences that marked this era of Moses in ancient Egypt. But we are taught to trace them to their cause: the judgments of divine wrath on a grossly idolatrous king and nation.

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:3

How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself - Had it been impossible for Pharaoh, in all the preceding plagues, to have humbled himself and repented can we suppose that God could have addressed him in such language as the preceding? We may rest assured that there was always a time in which he might have relented, and that it was because he hardened his heart at such times that God is said to harden him, i.e., to give him up to his own stubborn and obstinate heart; in consequence of which he refused to let the people go, so that God had a fresh opportunity to work another miracle, for the very gracious purposes mentioned in Exo 10:2. Had Pharaoh relented before, the same gracious ends would h…

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Dictionary and topics

Locust — There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law…
Plagues, The Ten — The occasion on which the plagues were sent is described in Exod 3-12.
Israel · .Al — .Al
Locust · Plague of — Plague of
Plague · Locusts — Locusts

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 10:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:2

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:3

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 10:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:2

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:3

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Exodus 10:3

John Calvin on Exodus 10:1-6

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 10:3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 10:2

Rashi on Exodus 10:3