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The Seventh Plague: Hail

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may bserve Me,  
14 for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, athat you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.  
15 Now if I had astretched out My hand and struck you and your people with bpestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.  
16 But indeed for athis purpose I have raised you up, that I may bshow My power in you, and that My cname may be declared in all the earth.  
17 As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.
18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.
19 Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.” ’ ”
20 He who afeared the word of the Lord among the bservants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee to the houses.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Exodus 9:15

For now I will stretch out my hand - In the Hebrew the verbs are in the past tense, and not in the future, as our translation improperly expresses them, by which means a contradiction appears in the text: for neither Pharaoh nor his people were smitten by a pestilence, nor was he by any kind of mortality cut off from the earth. It is true the first-born were slain by a destroying angel, and Pharaoh himself was drowned in the Red Sea; but these judgments do not appear to be referred to in this place. If the words be translated, as they ought, in the subjunctive mood, or in the past instead of the future, this seeming contradiction to facts, as well as all ambiguity, will be avoided: For if now I Had Stretched Out ( shalachti , had set forth) my hand, and had smitten thee ( vaach otheca ) and thy people with the pestilence, thou Shouldst Have Been cut off ( ticcached ) from the earth.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Exodus 9:15:

Deuteronomy 2:30
Deuteronomy 31:6
Romans 9:17
Romans 9:17

 

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