Exodus 10:21
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
KJV
Dixit autem Dominus ad Moysen : Extende manum tuam in cælum : et sint tenebræ super terram Ægypti tam densæ, ut palpari queant.
Vulgate
Εἶπεν δὲ Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν Ἔκτεινον τὴν χεῖρά σου εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ γενηθήτω σκότος ἐπὶ γῆν Αἰγύπτου, ψηλαφητὸν σκότος.
LXX
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.
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל מֹשֶׁ֗ה נְטֵ֤ה יָֽדְ/ךָ֙ עַל הַ/שָּׁמַ֔יִם וִ֥/יהִי חֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וְ/יָמֵ֖שׁ חֹֽשֶׁךְ
Hebrew
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Intertextual echoes
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Rev 16:10 · allusion"And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,"Exodus: plague of darkness — fifth bowl
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5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 2:4 — For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- 2Pet 2:17 — These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- Acts 27:20 — And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
- Amos 5:8 — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon
- Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
- Deut 28:29 — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Exod 7:19 — And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools
- Exod 9:22 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land o
- Ezek 32:7 — And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
- Isa 8:21 — And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
- Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- Isa 50:3 — I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
- Jer 13:16 — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross da
- Job 9:7 — Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- Job 38:15 — And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
- Jude 1:6 — And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
- Luke 23:44 — And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- Luke 23:44 — And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- Mark 15:33 — And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Matt 27:45 — Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Prov 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Ps 105:28 — He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- Rev 8:12 — And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone n
- Rev 9:2 — And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
- Rev 16:10 — And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- Rev 16:10 — And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,