Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods—This was what they could not be prepared for, and the discomfiture appeared in the loss of their rods, which were probably real serpents.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 7:12:
Numbers 20:8
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