Exodus 9:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 7:14 : 14 The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.
  • Exod 8:32 : 32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.
  • Exod 9:12 : 12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

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  • Exod 9:34-35
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    34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

    35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.

  • Exod 9:6
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    6And the LORD did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    14The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

  • Exod 10:27
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    27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

  • Exod 9:12-14
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    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

    13The Seventh Blow: Hail The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:“Release my people so that they may serve me!

    14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

  • Exod 7:21-23
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    21When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

    22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron– just as the LORD had predicted.

    23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not pay any attention to this.

  • Exod 8:15
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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 11:9-10
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    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

    10So 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.

  • Exod 8:31-32
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    31and the LORD did as Moses asked– he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

    32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

  • Exod 10:20
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    20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

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    8But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

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    4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.

    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

  • Exod 8:19-20
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    19The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    20The Fourth Blow: Flies The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!

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    1The Fifth Blow: Disease Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!

    2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

    3then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

    4But the LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

  • Exod 7:3-4
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    3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

    4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

  • Exod 10:1
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    1The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

  • Exod 9:8
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    8The 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.

  • Exod 9:19-21
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    19So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house– the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”

    20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

    21but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

  • Exod 4:21
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    21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Exod 14:17
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    17And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.

  • Exod 10:24
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    24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said,“Go, serve the LORD– only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”

  • Exod 5:2
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    2But Pharaoh said,“Who is the LORD that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will not release Israel!”

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  • Exod 9:17
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    17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

  • Exod 12:30-31
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    30Pharaoh 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.

    31Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said,“Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the LORD as you have requested!

  • Exod 7:16
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    16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.