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Exodus 9:19

in Exodus 9

So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

KJV

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

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This verse in Exodus 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail

on Exodus 9:18-19

Before the hail falls, the warning tells Egyptians how to escape it: servants and cattle brought under a roof will live. None of the earlier plagues carried such an instruction.

This site's exposition

give orders now to shelter your livestock

Before the hail, the LORD tells Egypt to bring people and animals indoors so they will live. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on verse 18, note that hailstones in Egypt are small and weak, which made this storm the more fearful.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

If Pharaoh will not yield, and so prevent the judgment itself, yet an opportunity is given to those that have any dread of God and his word to save themselves from sharing in the judgment.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Send - now, and gather thy cattle - So in the midst of judgment, God remembered mercy. The miracle should be wrought that they might know he was the Lord; but all the lives both of men and beasts might have been saved, had Pharaoh and his servants taken the warning so mercifully given them. While some regarded not the word of the Lord, others feared it, and their cattle and their servants were saved, See Exo 9:20, Exo 9:21.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand therefore

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • שְׁלַ֤חsend

    shelachH7971 →845 times

  • הָעֵז֙bring to refuge

    haezH5756 →

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִקְנְךָ֔livestock your

    miknechaH4735 →76 times

  • וְאֵ֛תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לְךָ֖[belongs] to <the> you

    lekha

  • בַּשָּׂדֶ֑הin the field

    basadehH7704 →334 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאָדָ֨םthe humankind

    haadamH120 →551 times

  • וְהַבְּהֵמָ֜הand the livestock

    vehabehemahH929 →190 times

  • אֲשֶֽׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יִמָּצֵ֣אit will be found

    yimatze'H4672 →455 times

  • בַשָּׂדֶ֗הin the field

    vasadehH7704 →334 times

  • וְלֹ֤אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יֵֽאָסֵף֙it will be gathered

    yeasefH622 →200 times

  • הַבַּ֔יְתָהthe house towards

    habaytahH1004 →2046 times

  • וְיָרַ֧דand it will come down

    veyaradH3381 →381 times

  • עֲלֵהֶ֛םon them

    ʾalehemH5921 →5755 times

  • הַבָּרָ֖דthe hail

    habaradH1259 →29 times

  • וָמֵֽתוּ׃and they will die

    vametuH4191 →839 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Habakkuk 3:2

    O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!

    it leads to

    • Psalms 85:6

      Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

    • Psalms 90:13–17

      Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

    • Hosea 6:2–3

      After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

    • Isaiah 51:9–11

      Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…

    • Lamentations 3:32

      Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Fifth Plague. Livestock Disease — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Fifth Plague. Livestock Disease — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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