Exodus 8 · Verse 23

Exodus 8:23

And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
Exodus 8:23, King James Version

Exodus 8:23 in other translations

BSBI will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”
WEBI will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”
ASVAnd I will put a division between my people and thy people: by to-morrow shall this sign be.
YLTand I have put a division between My people and thy people: to-morrow is this sign.'
DARBYAnd I will put a separation between my people and thy people; to-morrow shall this sign be.
BBEAnd I will put a division between my people and your people; tomorrow this sign will be seen.
WebsterAnd I will put a division between my people and thy people: to-morrow shall this sign be.

What does Exodus 8:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 8:20-24

Ex 8:20-32. Plague of Flies. 20-24. Rise up early ... Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water, &c.--Pharaoh still appearing obdurate, Moses was ordered to meet him while walking on the banks of the Nile and repeat his request for the liberation of Israel, threatening in case of continued refusal to cover every house from the palace to the cottage with swarms of flies--while, as a proof of the power that…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 And I will put a division - פדת peduth, a redemption, between my people and thy people; God hereby showing that he had redeemed them from those plagues to which he had abandoned the others.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 8:20-32

Pharaoh was early at his false devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber, when any service to the Lord is to be done? The Egyptians and the Hebrews were to be marked in the plague of flies. The Lord knows them that are his, and will make it appear, perhaps in this world, certainly in the other, that he has set them apart for himself. Pharaoh unwillingly entered into a treaty with Moses…

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Exodus 8:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְשַׂמְתִּ֣יve.sam.Tiand I will makeH7760
פְדֻ֔תfe.Duta ransomH6304
בֵּ֥יןbeinbetweenH996
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971
וּבֵ֣יןu.Veinand betweenH996
עַמֶּ֑ךָ'a.Me.khapeople yourH5971
לְמָחָ֥רle.ma.Charto tomorrowH4279
יִהְיֶ֖הyih.Yehit will happenH1961
הָאֹ֥תha.'Otthe signH226
הַזֶּֽה\׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a division. Heb. a redemption.
to-morrow. or, by to-morrow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 8:22

    And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

  • Exodus 8:23

    And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

  • Exodus 8:24

    And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

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Exodus 8:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y yo pondré redención entre mi pueblo y el tuyo. Mañana será esta señal.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Nous irons le chemin de trois jours dans le désert, et nous sacrifierons à l’ Éternel, notre Dieu, comme il nous a dit.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich werde eine Scheidung setzen zwischen meinem Volke und deinem Volke; morgen wird dieses Zeichen geschehen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ponamque divisionem inter populum meum et populum tuum: cras erit signum istud.