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Exodus 9:16
And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.
Exodus 9:16 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Exodus 9:16 in other translations
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.
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.
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,
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In context
13 And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.
16 And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.
17 Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?
18 Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.
19 Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields which the hail shall fall upon, shall die.
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