Exodus 9:15 “For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and…”

Exodus 9:15

For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

World English Bible

For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

American Standard Version

For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

Geneva Bible 1599

For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth.

Darby Translation

For now shall I put forth my hand, and I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

for now I have put forth My hand, and I smite thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou art hidden from the earth.

Bible in Basic English

For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

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Cross references

“stretch”

Exodus 3:20 Exodus 9:3 Exodus 9:6 Exodus 9:16

Exodus 3:20 · BSB

So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.

Exodus 9:3 · BSB

then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

Exodus 9:6 · BSB

And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.

Exodus 9:16 · BSB

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

“that”

Exodus 11:4–6 Exodus 12:29 Exodus 12:30

Exodus 11:4–6 · BSB

So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

Exodus 12:29 · BSB

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among th…

Exodus 12:30 · BSB

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

“cut off”

Exodus 14:28 1 Kings 13:34 Proverbs 2:22

Exodus 14:28 · BSB

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

1 Kings 13:34 · BSB

And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

Proverbs 2:22 · BSB

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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