Exodus 11:10

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Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before the face of Pharaoh. But Yahweh strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the sons of Israel go from his land.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: but the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart, and he suffred not the children of Israel to goe out of his lande.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Moses and Aaron have done all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Jehovah strengtheneth Pharaoh's heart, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel out of his land.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Moses and Aaron have done all these wonders before Pharaoh, and YHWH strengthens Pharaoh’s heart, and he has not sent the sons of Israel out of his land.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before the face of Pharaoh. But Yahweh strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the sons of Israel go from his land.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; but Jehovah made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel depart from his land.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Moses and Aaron did these miracles before Pharaoh, but the Lord gave Pharaoh a stubborn attitude, and he wouldn't let the Israelites leave his country.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

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הַמֹּפְתִ֥ים
môwphêth
H4159
“the · signs”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3302 in the sense of conspicuousness

TWOT: 152a

wonder, sign, miracle, portent - wonder (as a special display of God's power) - sign, token (of future event)
  1. וּמֹשֶׁ֣ה Môsheh H4872 “and · Moses” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  2. וְאַהֲרֹ֗ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “and · Aaron” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  3. עָשׂ֛וּ ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  4. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  5. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. הָאֵ֖לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “the · these” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  7. לִפְנֵ֣י pânîym H6440 “to/for · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  8. פַרְעֹ֑ה Parʻôh H6547 “Pharaoh” Noun, Proper
  9. וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק châzaq H2388 “and · to strengthen” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. יְהוָה֙ Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  11. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  12. לֵ֣ב lêb H3820 “heart of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. פַּרְעֹ֔ה Parʻôh H6547 “Pharaoh” Noun, Proper
  14. וְלֹֽא lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
  15. שִׁלַּ֥ח shâlach H7971 “to send” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  16. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  17. בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  18. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  19. מֵאַרְצֽוֹ ʼerets H776 “from · land · his” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

20
words
17
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַמֹּפְתִ֥ים sign H4159 occurs in 35 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 12 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 4 particles

Verb forms

  • עָשׂ֛וּ Qal · Perfect
  • וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק Piel · Sequential Imperfect
  • שִׁלַּ֥ח Piel · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • פַרְעֹ֑ה Pharaoh H6547 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 43 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 20 Hebrew tokens and 34 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 11:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 4:21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
  • Exodus 10:20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.
  • Exodus 10:27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.
  • Exodus 7:13–14 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
  • Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
  • 1 Samuel 6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
  • Job 9:4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
  • Romans 2:4–5 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 43 words vs World English Bible 27. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 11:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֗ן עָשׂ֛וּ אֶת כָּל הַמֹּפְתִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֑ה וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק יְהוָה֙ אֶת לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְלֹֽא שִׁלַּ֥ח אֶת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאַרְצֽוֹ

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 11:10 Septuagint · lemma form

μωυσῆς δέ καί ααρων ποιέω πᾶς ὁ σημεῖον καί ὁ τέρας οὗτος ἐν γῆ αἴγυπτος ἐναντίον φαραώ σκληρύνω δέ κύριος ὁ καρδία φαραώ καί οὐ θέλω ἐκ ἀποστέλλω ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ ἐκ γῆ αἴγυπτος

And Moses and Aaron wrought all these signs and wonders in the land of Egypt before Pharao; and the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, and he did not listen to send forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּמשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן עֲבָדוּ יָת כָּל מוֹפְתַיָא הָאִלֵין קֳדָם פַּרְעֹה וְתַקַף יְיָ יָת לִבָּא דְפַרְעֹה וְלָא שַׁלַח יָת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאַרְעֵהּ:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּמשֶׁה וְאַהֲרן עֲבָדוּ יַת כָּל תִּמְהַיָא הָאִילֵין קֳדָם פַּרְעה וּתְקֵיף יְיָ יַת יִצְרָא דְלִבָּא דְפַרְעה וְלָא פְטַר יַת בְּנֵי יִשְרָאֵל מֵאַרְעֵיהּ

    And Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharoh; and the Lord strengthened the design of Pharoh's heart, and he would not release the sons of Israel from his land.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 11:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Ver. 10. Did all these wonders.] But all was worse than spilt upon him: he was even set in sin, and resolved never to remove. God had a hand in it.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. these portents] The ‘portents’ described before in P (Exo_7:8-13, and the ‘plagues’ narrated by P), not those referred to in v. 9. ‘It is only in P that Moses and Aaron do the signs, and that before Pharaoh, Exo_7:9, Exo_9:8’ (Di.).

but Jehovah hardened, &c., emphasizing the fact that the portents had had no effect upon the Pharaoh. Cf. p. 53 f.

hardened] lit. made strong: P’s expression (see on Exo_7:13).

did not let, &c.] cf. Exo_6:11 b, Exo_7:2 b (both P).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, Which are related in the preceding chapters:

and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart: one time after another, and yet more and more:

so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land; until the last plague, the slaying of the firstborn, was brought upon him and his people, related in the following chapter.

Next: Exodus Chapter 12

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

The Lord hardened, &c. See the annotations above, chap. iv. 21, and chap. vii. 3.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

Moses and Aaron did all these plagues before Pharaoh. Aaron"s agency is not always mentioned, and seems to have been less marked in the later than in the earlier miracles, Moses gradually gaining self-reliance. In passing from the subject of the plagues wrought by the two brothers, it may be useful to give a synopsis of them, distinguishing those which came without warning from those which were announced beforehand, and noting, where possible, their actual worker, their duration, their physical source, and the hurt which they did.

Plagues. Announced Actual Duration. Physical Hurt which they did. or Not. Worker. Source.

1. Riverannounced Aaron 7 days water annoyance to man and beast. turned into blood

2. Frogs unknown annoyance to man

3. Mosquitoes not (dust of annoyance to man and beast the earth)

4. Beetles announced God air(?) annoyance and loss to man

5. Murrain

6. Boils not Moses (ashes of suffering to man and beast the furnace)

7. Hail announced air loss to man

8. Locusts east wind

9. Darkness not do 3 days air(?) annoyance and horror to man

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ומשה ואהרן עשו וגו׳ AND MOSES AND AARON DID etc. — It (Scripture) has already written this in the description of all the preceding wonders, and it repeats it here only in order to connect it with the chapter which comes after this (as giving a reason why the commands in the next chapter were given to Aaron as well as to Moses; cf. Rashi’s comment on the following verse).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Ramban (Nachmanides)

Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)

AND MOSES AND AARON DID ALL THESE WONDERS. These are the wonders mentioned above. Scripture states this now because it completes [the narrative of] all the deeds they did [before Pharaoh], including the decree of the plague of the firstborn of which they already informed Pharaoh, for in the actual slaying of the firstborn, Moses and Aaron had no part.

Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 20 words (17 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is môwphêth (“sign”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “sign” (môwphêth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Exodus 4:21, which shares the word «sign», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “Pharaoh” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  6. «עָשׂ֛וּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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