Wisdom 11:21
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21 For great strength is always present with you;
who can resist the might of your arm?(A)
Wisdom 12:27
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27 For by the things through which they suffered distress,
being tortured by the very things they deemed gods,
They saw and recognized the true God whom formerly they had refused to know;
with this, their final condemnation[a] came upon them.(A)
Footnotes
- 12:27 Condemnation: the death of Egyptian firstborn and the destruction of their army in the sea.
Exodus 5:2
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2 Pharaoh answered, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord,[a] and I will not let Israel go.”
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Exodus 9:29-34
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29 Moses replied to him, “As soon as I leave the city I will extend my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”
31 Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was in ear and the flax in bud. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they grow later.
33 When Moses had left Pharaoh and gone out of the city, he extended his hands to the Lord. The thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down upon the earth. 34 But Pharaoh, seeing that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, sinned again and became obstinate, both he and his servants.
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