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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me. See also: Exodus 8:1 Exodus 10:3 Exodus 9:13For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, See also: Exodus 8:2 Exodus 4:23 Isaiah 1:20behold, the LORD’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. See also: Exodus 7:4 Acts 13:11 1 Samuel 6:9The LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’” See also: Exodus 8:22 Isaiah 65:13-14 Malachi 3:18The LORD appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.” See also: Exodus 8:23 Jeremiah 28:16-17 Numbers 16:5The LORD did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died. See also: Psalms 78:48 Psalms 78:50 Exodus 9:25Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go. See also: Exodus 7:14 Exodus 8:32 Exodus 9:12The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. See also: Exodus 8:16It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.” See also: Revelation 16:2 Deuteronomy 28:27 Job 2:7They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal. See also: Deuteronomy 28:27The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. See also: 2 Timothy 3:8-9 Isaiah 47:12-14 Exodus 8:18-19The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses. See also: Exodus 4:21 Psalms 81:11-12 Exodus 7:13-14The LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me. See also: Exodus 8:20 Exodus 7:15 Exodus 9:1For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. See also: Exodus 8:10 Leviticus 26:21 1 Samuel 4:8For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; See also: Exodus 3:20 Exodus 9:16 1 Kings 13:34but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth, See also: Romans 9:17 Proverbs 16:4 Psalms 83:17-18because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go. See also: Job 15:25-26 Isaiah 37:29 Isaiah 45:9Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. See also: Psalms 83:15 1 Kings 19:2 Exodus 9:22-25Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’” See also: Habakkuk 3:2Those who feared the LORD’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses. See also: Proverbs 13:13 Proverbs 22:3 Hebrews 11:7Whoever didn’t respect the LORD’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field. See also: Job 34:14 Ezekiel 40:4 Daniel 10:12The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.” See also: Revelation 16:21 Exodus 7:19 Exodus 8:16Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. See also: Joshua 10:11 Psalms 18:13 Isaiah 30:30So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. See also: Exodus 10:6 Matthew 24:21 Exodus 9:23The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. See also: Psalms 105:32-33 Psalms 78:47Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. See also: Exodus 11:7 Exodus 9:4 Exodus 10:23Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. See also: 2 Chronicles 12:6 Lamentations 1:18 Exodus 10:16Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” See also: Exodus 8:8 Exodus 10:17 Exodus 8:28Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s. See also: Psalms 143:6 1 Corinthians 10:26 Isaiah 1:15But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear the LORD God.” See also: Isaiah 26:10 Proverbs 16:6 Isaiah 63:17The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming. See also: Ruth 1:22 Ruth 2:23 Habakkuk 3:17But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up. See also: Exodus 10:22Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. See also: Exodus 9:29 Exodus 8:12 Exodus 10:18-19When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. See also: Exodus 7:14 Exodus 8:15 Exodus 4:21The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses. See also: Exodus 4:21

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Exodus 9:3

Ver. 3. My hand. God inflicts the fourth, fifth, and tenth plagues without Moses.

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Exodus 9:5

Ver. 5. Land. Moses related all this to the king, according to the Samaritan copy.

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Exodus 9:6

Ver. 6. All the beasts. That is, many of all kinds. Ch. --- So it is said, (Jer. ix. 26,) all the nations are uncircumcised, though some few observed the rite of circumcision with the Jews. H.

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Exodus 9:7

Ver. 7. Hardened. He did not beg for a deliverance, as the beasts were dead. M.

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Exodus 9:9

Ver. 9. Blains. Pestiferous buboes or burning swellings. C. --- Thus were the pride and luxury of the Egyptians punished by Moses; and they who had kept the Hebrews in an iron furnace, were themselves scorched with fiery ashes and ulcers. M.

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Exodus 9:11

Ver. 11. Stand before to oppose Moses. They could not screen themselves. H.

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Exodus 9:12

Ver. 12. Hardened, &c. See the annotations above, chap. v. 21, chap. vii. 3, and chap. viii. 15.

Ch. --- The wicked man, when he is come into the depth of sins, condemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him. Prov. xviii. 3.

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Exodus 9:14

Ver. 14. Plagues of fire and hail, that thy heart may relent. But as all my chastisements will not produce this effect, I will be glorified in thy fall. H. --- I could now strike thee dead; (v. 15,) but I reserve thee for a more dreadful punishment, (v. 17,) in the waters of the Red Sea. C.

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Exodus 9:15

Ver. 15. Pestilence, or various evils which now came fast upon Pharao. M.

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Exodus 9:16

Ver. 16. Raised thee to the throne, or preserved thee hitherto from the former plagues. God disposes of things in such a manner, as to draw good out of the evil designs of men. S. Aug. de C.

D. xi. 17. Rom. ix. 17. C.

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Exodus 9:19

Ver. 19. Cattle. Some had escaped the former plague, or the Egyptians had purchased more from their neighbours, and in the land of Gessen. H. --- God tempers justice with mercy. S. Aug. q.

33. --- Die. This message was accordingly delivered to Pharao. Sam. copy. H.

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Exodus 9:24

Ver. 24. In all the land of. So the Heb.: but the Sam. and some Heb. MSS. have simply in Egypt.

Ken. --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some parts of Egypt, (M.) particularly about Tanis, v. 18. 34. C. Wisd. xvi. 17.

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Exodus 9:32

Ver. 32. Lateward. The hail fell in February. Bonfrere Aristophanes (in Avibus) says, the Egyptians and Phenicians have their harvest when the cuckoo begins to sing. The month Nisan, which answers to part of March and April, was honoured with the first fruits. C. xiii. 4. M.

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Exodus 9:35

Ver. 35. Hard. Heb. "and he hardened his heart." W.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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