Exodus 9:15-17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁵ For by now I could have put forth My hand and have struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

¹⁶ But for this very purpose have I let you live, that I might show you My power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.^(A)

¹⁷ Since you are still exalting yourself [in haughty defiance] against My people by not letting them go,