Exo 12:29-42, 13:4, 23:15, 34:18 | TSK | STEP | at midnight. the Lord smote.The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160. the first-born of Pharaoh. dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.

Exodus 12:29-42

at midnight.

the Lord smote.The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160.

Nu 3:13; 8:17; 33:4; Ps 78:51; 105:36; 135:8; 136:10; Heb 11:28

Heb 12:23

the first-born of Pharaoh.

4:23; 11:5

dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.

Isa 24:22; 51:14; Jer 38:6,13; Zec 9:11

and there was a great cry.No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!

11:6; Pr 21:13; Am 5:17; Mt 25:6; Jas 2:13

called.

10:29

Rise up.

3:19,20; 6:1; 11:1,8; Ps 105:38

the children.

10:9

your flocks.

10:26

bless me.

8:28; 9:28; Ge 27:34,38

urgent.

11:1; Ps 105:38

We be all.

Ge 20:3; Nu 17:12,13

kneading troughs. or, dough.

8:3Probably like the kneading-troughs of the Arabs; comparatively small wooden bowls, which also serve them for dishes. Their being bound up in their clothes may mean no more than their being wrapped up in their {hykes,} or long, loose, garments. See Shaw's Travels, p. 224, 4to. edit.

3:21,22; 11:2,3; Ge 15:14; Ps 105:37

the Lord.

3:21; 11:3; Ge 39:21; Pr 16:7; Da 1:9; Ac 2:47; 7:10

they spoiled.

3:22; Ge 15:14; Ps 105:37

the children.

Nu 33:3,5

Rameses.

1:11; Ge 47:11

six hundred.

38:26; Ge 12:2; 15:5; 46:3; Nu 1:46; 11:21

And a mixed multitude. Heb. a great mixture.

Nu 11:4; Zec 8:23

thrust.

33; 6:1; 11:1 The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, and of their fathers in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt, was 430 years." The Alexandrine copy of the LXX. has the same reading; and the same statement is made by the apostle Paul, in Ga 3:17, who reckons from the promise made to Abraham to the giving of the law. That these three witnesses have the truth, the chronology itself proves; for it is evident that the descendants of Israel did not dwell 430 years in Egypt; while it is equally evident, that the period from Abraham's entry into Canaan to the Exodus, is exactly that number. Thus, from Abraham's entrance into the promised land to the birth of Isaac, was 25 years; Isaac was 60 at the birth of Jacob; Jacob was 130 at his going into Egypt; where he and his children continued 215 years more; making in the whole 430 years. See Kennicott's Dissertation on the Hebrew Text.

sojourning.

Ac 13:17; Heb 11:9

four hundred.

Ge 12:1-3; 15:13; Ac 7:6; Ga 3:16,17

selfsame.

Ps 102:13; Da 9:24; Hab 2:3; Joh 7:8; Ac 1:7

hosts.

51; 7:4; Jos 5:14

a night to be much observed. Heb. a night of observations.observed.

14; De 16:1-6