Exodus 9:8-17

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Take handfuls <03947 02651> [Take to.]

This was a significant command; not only referring to the fiery furnace, which was a type of the slavery of the Israelites, but to a cruel rite common among the Egyptians. They had several cities styled Typhonian, in which at particular seasons they sacrificed men, who were burnt alive; and the ashes of the victim were scattered upwards in the air, with the view, probably, that where any atom of dust was carried, a blessing was entailed. The like, therefore, was done by Moses, though with a different intention, and more certain effect. See Bryant, pp. 93-106.

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boils <07822> [a boil.]

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boils <07822> [a boil.]

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Hardness of heart is a figurative expression, denoting that insensibility of mind upon which neither judgments nor mercies make any abiding impressions; but the conscience being stupefied, the obdurate rebel persists in determined disobedience.

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send .... plagues <07971 04046> [send all.]

know <03045> [that thou.]

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stretched out <07971> [stretch.]

struck <05221> [that.]

destroyed <03582> [cut off.]

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for ... purpose <05668> [deed.]

stand <05975> [raised thee up. Heb. made thee stand. for to.]

name <08034> [that my.]

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