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15 Indeed, by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.(A) 16 But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.(B) 17 You are still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go.

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15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people(A) with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. 16 But I have raised you up[a] for this very purpose,(B) that I might show you my power(C) and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. 17 You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

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  1. Exodus 9:16 Or have spared you