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For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
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A Hypothetical Warning
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse is a hypothetical statement. God is not saying He already struck Pharaoh down, but that He could have easily done so. The verse should be understood as, 'If I had stretched out my hand... you would have been cut off from the earth.'
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a t…
19th Century
Anglican
THE SEVENTH PLAGUE.
The plagues fall into triads, or groups of three. This is the first plague of the third group, and pres…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For now will I stretch out my hand, that I may smite you and your people with pestilence
Which yet we never find w…
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