Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
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(8-1) And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.'
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Passages linked to Exodus 8:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 7:19 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say…
Exo 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Ver. 5. And the Lord spake unto Moses.] By secret inspiration; for it was in Pharaoh’s presence.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Lord spake unto Moses, by inward instinct or…
The Lord spake unto Moses, by inward instinct or suggestion to his mind; for He was now in the king’s presence.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters…
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt,.... That is, towards the waters of the Nile, and towards all places where any water was; for it was not possible he could stretch out his hand over all the waters that were in every place:
and the frogs came and covered the land of Egypt: they came up at once, and in such multitudes everywhere, that the whole land was full of them; this was done on the twenty fifth of Adar, or February, the same day the former plague ceased; so Artapanus (s), the Heathen historian says, that Moses by his rod produced frogs, locusts, and lice. And the story which Heraclides Lembus (t) tells seems to be hammered out of this account of Moses, that in Paeonia and Dardania such a number of frogs fell from heaven, as filled the public roads and private houses; at first the inhabitants killed them, and keeping their houses shut, bore it patiently some time; but when it signified nothing, and their household goods were covered with them, and they found them boiled and roasted with their food, and lay in such heaps that they could not tread for them, and were so distressed with the smell of the dead ones, they forsook their country.
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(s) Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 425.) (t) Apud Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 8. c. 2.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Stretch forth thine hand - over the…
Verse 5. Stretch forth thine hand - over the streams, over the rivers] The streams and rivers here may refer to the grand divisions of the Nile in the Lower Egypt, which were at least seven, and to the canals by which these were connected; as there were no other streams, &c., but what proceeded from this great river.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the…
Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, &c. The miracle consisted in the reptiles leaving their marshes at the very time he commanded them.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. Say unto Aaron] See on Exo_7:19.
5. Say unto Aaron] See on Exo_7:19.
with thy rod] The rod which in P Aaron habitually carries (Exo_7:9; Exo_7:19, Exo_8:16-17).
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the streams] the Nile-canals, as Exo_7:19. In J the frogs are to come up only out of the Nile (v. 3); in P they come up out of the other waters in Egypt as well (cf. v. 6).
5–7. The arrival of the frogs is described in an extract from P. As elsewhere in P (p. 55), the wonder is brought about by Aaron with is rod.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Over the streams rivers ponds. See the comment on…
Over the streams rivers ponds. See the comment on Exo_7:19.
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