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Bible Verses About The Plague or Pestilence

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  1. For ADONAI will pass through to kill the Egyptians; but when he sees the blood on the top and on the two sides, ADONAI will pass over the door and will not allow the Slaughterer to enter your houses and kill you.

  2. At midnight ADONAI killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

  3. Pharaoh got up in the night, he, all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was horrendous wailing in Egypt; for there wasn't a single house without someone dead in it.

  4. ADONAI struck the people with a plague because they had made the calf, the one Aharon made.

  5. then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins.

  6. I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.

  7. But while the meat was still in their mouth, before they had chewed it up, the anger of ADONAI flared up against the people, and ADONAI struck the people with a terrible plague.

  8. Moshe said to Aharon, "Take your fire pan, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, and hurry with it to the assembly to make atonement for them, because anger has gone out from ADONAI, and the plague has already begun!"

  9. Aharon took it, as Moshe had said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. There the plague had already begun among the people, but he added the incense and made atonement for the people.

  10. He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

  11. Those dying from the plague numbered 14,700 - besides those who died in the Korach incident.

  12. Aharon returned to Moshe at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

  13. because they are treating you as enemies by the trickery they used to deceive you in the P'or incident and in the affair of their sister Kozbi, the daughter of the leader from Midyan, the woman who was killed on the day of the plague in the P'or incident."

  14. "ADONAI will bring on you a plague that will stay with you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering in order to take possession of it.

  15. So ADONAI sent a plague on Isra'el from that morning until the end of the specified time; 70,000 of the people died between Dan and Be'er-Sheva.

  16. But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, ADONAI changed his mind about causing such distress and said to the angel destroying the people, "Enough! Now withdraw your hand."The angel of ADONAI was at the threshing-floor of Aravnah the Y'vusi.

  17. "If there is famine in the land, or blight, windstorm, mildew, locusts or shearer-worms; or if their enemy comes to the land and besieges them in any of their cities- no matter what kind of plague or sickness it is;

  18. then, regardless of what prayer or plea anyone among all your people Isra'el makes - for each individual will know what is plagueing his own conscience - and the person spreads out his hands toward this house;

  19. 'If calamity strikes us, such as war, judgment, disease or famine, we will stand before this house - that is, before you, since your name is in this house - and cry to you in our distress; and you will hear us and rescue us.'

  20. "Have mercy on me, ADONAI! See how I suffer from those who hate me; you raise me from the gates of death,

  21. to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,

  22. You will not fear the terrors of night or the arrow that flies by day,

  23. or the plague that roams in the dark, or the scourge that wreaks havoc at noon.

  24. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it won't come near you.

  25. Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds, so that a plague broke out among them.