Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if you [are] refusing to release and you still [are] keeping hold of them,
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Holman Bible
But if you refuse to let them go and keep holding them,
International Standard Version
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
A Conservative Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,
American Standard Version
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Amplified
But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,
Bible in Basic English
For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
Darby Translation
For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,
Julia Smith Translation
For if thou refusest to send forth, but yet thou holdest fast upon them,
King James 2000
For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,
Modern King James verseion
For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still:
NET Bible
For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
New Heart English Bible
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
The Emphasized Bible
But, if, refusing, thou art to let them go, - and still art holding them fast,
Webster
For if thou shalt refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
World English Bible
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
Youngs Literal Translation
for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Plague Five: Livestock Death
1 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me." 2 But if you [are] refusing to release and you still [are] keeping hold of them, 3 look, the hand of Yahweh [is] about to be [present with] a very {severe} plague on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep and goats.
Cross References
Exodus 8:2
And if you [are] refusing to release, look, I [am going to] plague all of your territory with frogs.
Exodus 4:23
And I said to you, "Release my son and let him serve me," but you refused to release him. Look, I [am about] to kill your son, your firstborn.'"
Exodus 10:4
But if you [are] refusing to release my people, look, I [am] about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Leviticus 26:14-16
" 'But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands,
Leviticus 26:23-24
" 'And if you do not accept correction from me through these [things], but you go against me [in] hostility,
Leviticus 26:27-28
" 'And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility,
Psalm 7:11-12
God [is] a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
Psalm 68:21
But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp [of the one who] {continues on} in his guilt.
Isaiah 1:20
But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured [by the] sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken."
Romans 2:8
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
Revelation 2:21-22
And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.
Revelation 16:9
And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.