Exodus 10:22
So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.
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- Ps 105:28 : 28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
- Rev 16:10 : 10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.
- Exod 20:21 : 21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
- Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
- Deut 5:22 : 22 The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
- Joel 2:2 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
- Joel 2:31 : 31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!
- Amos 4:13 : 13 For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is his name!”
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- Exod 10:20-212 verses90%
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.
21 The Ninth Blow: Darkness The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”
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23 No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
- Exod 9:22-243 verses75%
22 Then the LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”
23 When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.
24 Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
- Exod 14:20-212 verses75%
20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.
21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
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7 Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
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21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
- Exod 10:12-132 verses74%
12 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”
13 So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!
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22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
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18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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33 So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.
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15 They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.
- Exod 11:3-42 verses71%
3 (Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)
4 Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
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45 Jesus’ Death Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.
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20 So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.
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3 They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,
- Deut 34:11-122 verses71%
11 He did all the signs and wonders the LORD had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,
12 and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.
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33 Jesus’ Death Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
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11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
- Exod 24:15-162 verses70%
15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
16 The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.
- Exod 14:26-272 verses70%
26 The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”
27 So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
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16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
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5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.
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12 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
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15 The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
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8 The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
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10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
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44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,
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39 He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
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11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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10 So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
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18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
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3 Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’
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30 Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.
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10 When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,
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12 When the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other, and so his hands were steady until the sun went down.