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Exd 10:21 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Stretch		Exd 9:22
darkness		As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160. Psa 35:6; Psa 78:49; Psa 105:28; Pro 4:19; Ecc 2:14; Ecc 6:4; Isa 8:21,22; Mat 27:45; Mar 15:33; Luk 23:44; 2Pe 2:4,17; Jud 1:6,13; Rev 16:10,11
even darkness which may be felt		Heb. that one may feel darkness.

Correlating Passages

Stretch

Exd 9:22

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

darkness

	Psa 35:6	Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
	Psa 78:49	He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
	Psa 105:28	He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
	Pro 4:19	The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
	Ecc 2:14	The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
	Ecc 6:4	For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
	Isa 8:21	And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
	Isa 8:22	And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
	Mat 27:45	Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
	Mar 15:33	And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
	Luk 23:44	And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
	2Pe 2:4	For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
	2Pe 2:17	These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
	Jud 1:6	And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
	Jud 1:13	Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
	Rev 16:10	And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
	Rev 16:11	And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 10:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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