Exodus 3:20
New International Version
So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

New Living Translation
So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians, performing all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go.

English Standard Version
So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.

Berean Standard Bible
So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.

King James Bible
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

New King James Version
So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.

New American Standard Bible
So I will reach out with My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

NASB 1995
“So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

NASB 1977
“So I will stretch out My hand, and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wondrous deeds which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

Amplified Bible
So I will reach out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

Christian Standard Bible
But when I stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my miracles that I will perform in it, after that, he will let you go.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.

American Standard Version
And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall reach my hands and I shall strike the Egyptians to do all wonders among them, and after that they shall send you away.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and I will stretch out my hand, and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I shall work among them, and after that he will send you forth.

Contemporary English Version
So I will use my mighty power to perform all kinds of miracles and strike down the Egyptians. Then the king will send you away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I will stretch forth my hand and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.

English Revised Version
And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So I will use my power to strike Egypt. After all the miracles that I will do there, he will let you go.

Good News Translation
But I will use my power and will punish Egypt by doing terrifying things there. After that he will let you go.

International Standard Version
so I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do there. After that he will release you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof. And after that he will let you go.

Literal Standard Version
and I have put forth My hand, and have struck Egypt with all My wonders, which I do in its midst—and afterward he sends you away.

Majority Standard Bible
So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.

New American Bible
So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wondrous deeds I will do in its midst. After that he will let you go.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will perform in it; after that he will let you go.

New Heart English Bible
I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

World English Bible
I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

Young's Literal Translation
and I have put forth My hand, and have smitten Egypt with all My wonders, which I do in its midst -- and afterwards he doth send you away.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Moses at the Burning Bush
19But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you. 21And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.…

Cross References
Acts 7:36
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

Exodus 4:21
The LORD instructed Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 6:1
But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

Exodus 7:3
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 7:4
Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them."

Exodus 9:15
For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the middle thereof: and after that he will let you go.

stretch.

Exodus 6:6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

Exodus 9:15
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

smite.

Exodus 7:3
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 11:9
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:34
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

after that.

Exodus 11:8
And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

Exodus 12:31,39
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said…

Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

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Exodus 3
1. Moses keeps Jethro's flock.
2. God appears to him in a burning bush.
9. He sends him to deliver Israel.
13. The name of God.
15. His message to Israel, and Pharaoh, whose opposition is foretold.
20. He is assured of Israel's deliverance.














(20) I will stretch out my hand.--Hands are stretched out to help and save. God promises here more than He had promised before (Exodus 3:12). He shows how He will "be with" Moses. He will lend him miraculous aid, performing in his behalf "all his wonders," and with them "smiting the Egyptians."

Verse 20. - I will stretch out my hand. To encourage Moses and the people, to support them in what was, humanly speaking, a most unequal contest, this important promise is made. It is a confirmation, and to some extent, an explanation of the pledge, already, given, "Certainly I will be with thee" (ver. 12). It shows how God would be with him - he would smite Egypt with all his wonders - what those would be was left obscure. He would come to his people's aid, and openly assert himself, and afflict and strike terror into their enemies-until at last even Pharaoh's stubborn spirit would be broken, and he would consent to let them go.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So I will stretch out
וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֤י (wə·šā·laḥ·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

My hand
יָדִי֙ (yā·ḏî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

and strike
וְהִכֵּיתִ֣י (wə·hik·kê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

the Egyptians
מִצְרַ֔יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

with all
בְּכֹל֙ (bə·ḵōl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the wonders
נִפְלְאֹתַ֔י (nip̄·lə·’ō·ṯay)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6381: To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful

I will perform
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֖ה (’e·‘ĕ·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

among them.
בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ (bə·qir·bōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center

And after
וְאַחֲרֵי־ (wə·’a·ḥă·rê-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

that,
כֵ֖ן (ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

he will release
יְשַׁלַּ֥ח (yə·šal·laḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

you.
אֶתְכֶֽם׃ (’eṯ·ḵem)
Direct object marker | second person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case


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