Exodus 10:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Common English Bible

²¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Raise your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over the land of Egypt, a darkness that you can feel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Then the Lord said to Moses: "Extend your hand into the sky. And let there be a darkness over the land of Egypt, so dense that they may be able to feel it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out they hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick that it may be felt.

Exodus 10:21 Cross References

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

Psalm 35:6

Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

Psalm 78:49

He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.

Exodus 7:19

The Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water—so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.”

Exodus 9:22

The Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that hail may fall on the whole land of Egypt, on humans and animals and all the plants of the field in the land of Egypt.”

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

Ezekiel 32:7

When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Matthew 27:45

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Mark 15:33

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Luke 23:44

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes

Deuteronomy 28:29

you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

2 Peter 2:17

These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 8:12

The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining and likewise the night.