14And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
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But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-25)Here is the first of the ten plagues, the turning of the water into blood, which was, 1. A dreadful plague, and very grievous. The very sight of such vast rolling streams of blood, pure blood no doubt, florid and high-colored, could not but strike a horror upon people: much more afflictive were the consequences of it. Nothing more common than water: so wisely has Providence ordered it, and so kind…
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