Exodus 10:22
New International Version
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.

New Living Translation
So Moses lifted his hand to the sky, and a deep darkness covered the entire land of Egypt for three days.

English Standard Version
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

Berean Standard Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

King James Bible
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

New King James Version
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

New American Standard Bible
So Moses reached out with his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

NASB 1995
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

NASB 1977
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Amplified Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and for three days a thick darkness was all over the land of Egypt [no sun, no moon, no stars].

Christian Standard Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

American Standard Version
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Moshe lifted his hand to Heaven and there was darkness and thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days.

Contemporary English Version
Moses stretched his arm toward the sky, and Egypt was covered with darkness for three days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses stretch forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

English Revised Version
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Moses lifted his hand toward the sky, and throughout Egypt there was total darkness for three days.

Good News Translation
Moses raised his hand toward the sky, and there was total darkness throughout Egypt for three days.

International Standard Version
So Moses stretched his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

Literal Standard Version
And Moses stretches out his hand toward the heavens, and there is darkness—thick darkness in all the land of Egypt [for] three days;

Majority Standard Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

New American Bible
So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was dense darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

NET Bible
So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

New Revised Standard Version
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

New Heart English Bible
Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

World English Bible
Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days. 23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.…

Cross References
Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish

Psalm 105:28
He sent darkness, and it became dark--yet they defied His words.

Amos 4:7
"I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.


Treasury of Scripture

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

thick darkness

Exodus 20:21
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

Deuteronomy 4:11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

Deuteronomy 5:22
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

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Exodus 10
1. God threatens to send locusts
7. Pharaoh, moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go
12. The plague of the locusts
16. Pharaoh entreats Moses
21. The plague of darkness
24. Pharaoh again entreats Moses, but yet is hardened














Verse 22. - A thick darkness. - Literally, "An obscurity of darkness." The phrase is intensitive.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Moses
מֹשֶׁ֛ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

stretched out
וַיֵּ֥ט (way·yêṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

his hand
יָד֖וֹ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

toward
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

heaven,
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

and total
אֲפֵלָ֛ה (’ă·p̄ê·lāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 653: Duskiness, misfortune, concealment

darkness
חֹֽשֶׁךְ־ (ḥō·šeḵ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

covered
וַיְהִ֧י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

all
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the land
אֶ֥רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Egypt
מִצְרַ֖יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

for three
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (šə·lō·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

days.
יָמִֽים׃ (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day


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