Deuteronomy 28:27 BSB

Deuteronomy 28:27

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

BSB

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ASV

Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

KJV

The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,.... Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called "elephantiasis", frequent among the Egyptians; See Gill on Lev 13:2. Thevenot (i) relates, that when the time of the increase of the Nile expires, the Egyptians are attended with sharp prickings in their skin like needles. So Vansleb says (k),"the waters of the Nile cause an itch in the skin, which troubles such as drink of them when the river increases.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Lord will smite thee with the botch - שחין shechin, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job ii., one of the Hexapla versions renders it ελεφας, the elephantiasis, a disease the most horrid that can possibly afflict human nature. In this disorder, the whole body is covered with a most loathsome scurf; the joints are all preternaturally enlarged, and the skin swells up and grows into folds like that of an elephant, whence the disease has its name.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יַכְּכָ֨ה	ya.ke.Khah	he will strike you	H5221 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בִּשְׁחִ֤ין	bish.Chin	with [the] boil[s] of	H7822 →
מִצְרַ֙יִם֙	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
וּבַטְּחֹרִ֔ים	u.vo.'o.fa.lim	and with <the> tumors	H2914 →
וּבַגָּרָ֖ב	u.va.ga.Rav	and with <the> eczema	H1618 →
וּבֶחָ֑רֶס	u.ve.Cha.res	and with <the> scabies	H2775 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תוּכַ֖ל	tu.Khal	you will be able	H3201 →
לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃	le.he.ra.Fe'	to be healed	H7495 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 15:26
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
leads to
- Psalms 103:3
  He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Deuteronomy 7:15
  And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Exodus 23:25
  So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
- Psalms 41:3–4
  The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
- Psalms 147:3
  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Through
Exodus 9:9
It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
leads to
- Revelation 16:2
  So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Through
1 Samuel 5:6
Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 5:11
  Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us…
- Exodus 9:3
  then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

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