Exodus 9:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
In context
14 Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
15 For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
17 Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
18 Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
Exodus 9:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- KJV King James Version
- And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
- WEB World English Bible
- but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
- ASV American Standard Version
- but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And yet for this I have caused thee to stand, so as to show thee My power, and for the sake of declaring My Name in all the earth;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And for this very cause have I raised thee up, to shew thee my power; and that my name may be declared in all the earth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.