Exodus 9:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵ For by now I could have easily raised my hand and struck you and your people with a disease so lethal that you would be erased entirely from the earth. ¹⁶ But I have kept you in power for a reason, to show you My greater power and to see that My name and reputation spread through all the earth.^{[a] 17} But you still try to dominate My people and refuse to release them from the land.