וְאִם מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֗י נֹגֵ֛ף אֶת כָּל גְּבוּלְךָ֖ בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
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If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
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If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And if you refuse to let go, behold! I am about to strike all your territory with frogs.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And if thou wilt not let them goe, beholde, I will smite all thy countrey with frogges:
But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.
and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;
and if you are refusing to send [them] away, behold, I am striking all your border with frogs;
If you refuse to let them go, I will afflict all your country with frogs.
And if you refuse to let go, behold! I am about to strike all your territory with frogs.
And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
And if thou shalt refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
If you refuse to let them leave, I will send a plague of frogs all over your country.
And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:
(7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מָאֵ֥ן refusing H3986 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מָאֵ֥ן refusing H3986 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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וְאִם מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֗י נֹגֵ֛ף אֶת כָּל גְּבוּלְךָ֖ בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐκτείνω ααρων ὁ χείρ ἐπί ὁ ὕδωρ αἴγυπτος καί ἀναἄγω ὁ βάτραχος καί ἀναβιβάζω ὁ βάτραχος καί καλύπτω ὁ γῆ αἴγυπτος
And if you will not send them forth, behold, I afflict all your borders with frogs:
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 →
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.
וַאֲרֵים אַהֲרֹן יָת יְדֵהּ עַל מַיָא דְמִצְרָאֵי וּסְלֵיקַת עֻרְדְעָנַיָא וַחֲפַת יָת אַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם:
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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.
וַאֲרֵים אַהֲרן יַת יְדֵיהּ עַל מַיָא דְמִצְרַיִם וּסְלִיקַת מְחַת עוּרְדְעָנַיָא וַחֲפַת יַת אַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם בְּרַם משֶׁה לָא אַלְקֵי יַת מַיָא לָא בְּאַדְמָא וְלָא בְּעוּרְדְעָנַיָא מִן בִּגְלַל דַהֲוַת לֵיהּ בְּהוֹן שֵׁיזְבוּתָא בִּזְמַן דְטָלְקַת יָתֵיהּ אִמֵיהּ בְּנַהֲרָא
And Aharon uplifted his hand over the waters of Mizraim, and the plague of frogs came up and covered the land of Mizraim. But Mosheh (himself) did not smite the waters, either with the blood or with the frogs because through them (the waters of the Nile) he had (found) safety the time that his mother laid him in the river.
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.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâʼên (“refusing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 8:2 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.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.