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Exodus 11:1

in Exodus 11

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

This verse in Exodus 11

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
The Lord said - Or “the Lord had said.” The first three verses of this chapter are parenthetical. Before Moses relates the last warning given to Pharaoh, he feels it right to recall to his readers’ minds the revelation and command which had been previously given to him by the Lord. When he shall let you go ... - When at last he lets you depart with children, flocks, herds, and all your possessions, he will compel you to depart in haste.

This site's exposition

Yet will I bring one plague more

God gives Moses the count before the last stroke falls, so the sequence ends on an announcement rather than on a surprise. The promise that Pharaoh will thrust you out hence altogether is reported as kept at 12:33, where the Egyptians are urgent upon the people, and at 12:39, where the dough has no time to rise. Genesis 12:17 records the LORD plaguing an earlier Pharaoh over an earlier Hebrew household, and the account of Egypt and the sons of Abraham closes here with the same word.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

YET ONE PLAGUE MORE WILL I BRING UPON PHARAOH. “This [prophecy] was spoken to him while he was still standing before Pharaoh, for after he left him he did not see his face again.” Thus the language of Rashi. Our Rabbis have similarly said: 75 Shemoth Rabbah:1.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 11:1:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • ע֣וֹדyet

    odH5750490 times

  • נֶ֤גַעa plague

    nega'H5061

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259971 times

  • אָבִ֤יאI will bring

    ʾavi'H9352568 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • פַּרְעֹה֙Pharaoh

    parohH6547274 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H59215755 times

  • מִצְרַ֔יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714641 times

  • אַֽחֲרֵי־after

    ʾacharei-H310715 times

  • כֵ֕ןthus

    khenH3651771 times

  • יְשַׁלַּ֥חhe will let go

    yeshalachH7971845 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • מִזֶּ֑הfrom here

    mizehH20881180 times

  • כְּשַׁ֨לְּח֔וֹwhen lets [you] go he

    keshalechoH7971845 times

  • כָּלָ֕הcompletely

    kalahH3617

  • גָּרֵ֛שׁcompletely <drive out>

    gareshH164446 times

  • יְגָרֵ֥שׁhe will drive out

    yegareshH164446 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • מִזֶּֽה׃from here

    mizehH20881180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 6:6

      Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 26:8

      Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

    • Deuteronomy 5:15

      Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the…

    • Deuteronomy 7:19

      the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same…

    • Deuteronomy 7:8–9

      But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand…

  • Through

    Genesis 15:14

    But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 9:9–11

      You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

    • Exodus 6:5–6

      Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.

    • Exodus 12:32–38

      Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

About Exodus

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.