_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, YET WILL I BRING ONE PLAGUE MORE UPON PHARAOH, AND UPON EGYPT; AFTERWARDS HE WILL LET YOU GO HENCE: WHEN HE SHALL LET YOU GO, HE SHALL SURELY THRUST YOU OUT HENCE ALTOGETHER._ The Lord said - rather HAD said unto Moses. It may be inferred, therefore, that he had been... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK NOW IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE, AND LET EVERY MAN BORROW OF HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND EVERY WOMAN OF HER NEIGHBOUR, JEWELS OF SILVER, AND JEWELS OF GOLD._ Speak now in the ears of the people. These verses, describing the communication which had been made in private to Moses, are inserted here as a p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ABOUT MIDNIGHT WILL I GO OUT INTO THE MIDST OF EGYPT:_ Thus saith the Lord, About midnight - i:e., not midnight of that day, but of the day referred to in the divine communication. Here is recorded the announcement of the last plague made in the most solemn man... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL DIE, FROM THE FIRSTBORN OF PHARAOH THAT SITTETH UPON HIS THRONE, EVEN UNTO THE FIRSTBORN OF THE MAIDSERVANT THAT IS BEHIND THE MILL; AND ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF BEASTS._ All the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die. The time, the suddenness, the d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE SHALL BE A GREAT CRY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, SUCH AS THERE WAS NONE LIKE IT, NOR SHALL BE LIKE IT ANY MORE._ Shall be a great cry. In the case of a death, people in the East set up loud wailings, and imagination may conceive what "a great cry" would be raised when death would i... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AGAINST ANY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL NOT A DOG MOVE HIS TONGUE, AGAINST MAN OR BEAST: THAT YE MAY KNOW HOW THAT THE LORD DOTH PUT A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EGYPTIANS AND ISRAEL._ Not a dog. No town or village in Egypt, or in the East generally, is free from the nuisance of dogs, which in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THESE THY SERVANTS SHALL COME DOWN UNTO ME, AND BOW DOWN THEMSELVES UNTO ME, SAYING, GET THEE OUT, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW THEE: AND AFTER THAT I WILL GO OUT. AND HE WENT OUT FROM PHARAOH IN A_ _ GREAT ANGER._ All these thy servants shall ... bow down themselves unto me. This should... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, PHARAOH SHALL NOT HEARKEN UNTO YOU; THAT MY WONDERS MAY BE MULTIPLIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON DID ALL THESE WONDERS BEFORE PHARAOH: AND THE LORD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART, SO THAT HE WOULD NOT LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GO OUT OF HIS LAND._ Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. In the narrative of the ten plagues, what is remarkable is, not only their cha... [ Continue Reading ]