SEV Biblia, Chapter 28:27
El SEÑOR te herirá de la plaga de Egipto, y con almorranas, y con sarna, y con comezón, de que no puedas ser curado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:27
Verse 27. The Lord will smite thee with the botch] yj shechin, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job ii., one of the Hexapla versions renders it elefav, 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. The skin, through its rigidity, breaks across at all the joints, and a most abominable ichor flows from all the chinks, &c. See an account of it in Aretaeus, whose language is sufficient to chill the blood of a maniac, could he attend to the description given by this great master, of this most loathsome and abominable of all the natural productions of death and sin. This was called the botch of Egypt, as being peculiar to that country, and particularly in the vicinity of the Nile. Hence those words of Lucretius:- Est Elephas morbus, qui circum flumina Nili Nascitur, AEgypto in media; nec praeterea usquam.Lib. vi., ver. 1112. Emerods] µylp[ ophalim, from lp[ aphal, to be elevated, raised up; swellings, protuberances; probably the bleeding piles.
Scab] brg garab does not occur as a verb in the Hebrew Bible, but gharb, in Arabic, signifies a distemper in the corner of the eye, (Castel.,) and may amount to the Egyptian ophthalmia, which is so epidemic and distressing in that country: some suppose the scurvy to be intended.
Itch] srj cheres, a burning itch, probably something of the erysipelatous kind, or what is commonly called St. Anthony's fire.
Whereof thou canst not be healed.] For as they were inflicted by GOD's justice, they could not of course be cured by human art.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt , etc.] Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called “elephantiasis”, frequent among the Egyptians; (see Gill on “ Leviticus 13:2”). Thevenot 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 f499 , “the waters of the Nile cause an itch in the skin, which troubles such as drink of them when the river increases. This itch is very small, and appears first about the arms, next upon the stomach, and spreads all about the body, which causes a grievous pain; and not only the river water, but that out of the cisterns drank of, brings it, and it lasts about six weeks.”
Though some take this botch to be the botch and blain which the Egyptians were plagued with for refusing to let Israel go, ( Exodus 9:9,10); and with the emerods ; or haemorrhoids, the piles, a disease of the fundament, attended sometimes with ulcers there; (see 1 Samuel 5:9); and with the scab and with the itch : the one moist, the other dry, and both very distressing: whereof thou canst not be healed ; by any art of men; which shows these to be uncommon ones, and from the immediate hand of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-44 - If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which include all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of thi curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The exten and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any tru comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Man judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, an with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostac and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatening in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened tha by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, an left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, ar in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them look frightful.
Original Hebrew
יככה 5221 יהוה 3068 בשׁחין 7822 מצרים 4714 ובעפלים 6076 ובגרב 1618 ובחרס 2775 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 תוכל 3201 להרפא׃ 7495
