26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
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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.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-35)The threatened plague of hail is here summoned by the powerful hand and rod of Moses ( Exod. 9:22 , 23 ), and it obeys the summons, or rather the divine command; for fire and hail fulfil God’s word , Ps. 148:8. And here we are told, I. What desolations it made upon the earth. The thunder, and fire from heaven (or lightning), made it both the more dreadful and the more destroying, Exod. 9:23 , 24 .…
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