Exodus 4:21

New English Translation

The 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.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

1 Kings 22:22

He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.’

Psalm 105:25

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

Psalm 78:43

when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

Exodus 10:1

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,

Exodus 10:20

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

Exodus 11:10

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.

Exodus 11:9

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 14:17

And 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.

Exodus 14:4

I 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.

Exodus 14:8

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

Exodus 3:19

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.

Exodus 3:20

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.

Exodus 7:13

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 8:11

The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 8:32

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

Exodus 9:12

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

Exodus 9:35

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

Isaiah 6:10

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

Isaiah 63:17

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.

Joshua 11:20

for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.

1 Peter 2:8

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.