Catholic Public Domain Version
"But if you still refuse, and you retain them, "
— Exodus 9:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,”
“For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, ”
“For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,”
“For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,”
“But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:”
“For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,”
“For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,”
Then the Lord said to Moses: “Enter to Pharaoh, and say to him: ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: Release my people, to sacrifice to me.
But if you still refuse, and you retain them,
behold, my hand will be over your fields. And a very grievous pestilence will be upon the horses, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the oxen, and the sheep.
And the Lord will cause a miracle between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, so that nothing at all will perish from those things which belong to the sons of Israel.”
And the Lord appointed a time, saying: “Tomorrow, the Lord will accomplish this word in the land.”