SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:31
El lino, pues, y la cebada fueron heridos; porque la cebada estaba ya espigada, y el lino en caa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 9:31
Verse 31. The flax and the barley was smitten] The word htp pishtah, flax, Mr. Parkhurst thinks, is derived from the root fp pashat, to strip, because the substance which we term flax is properly the bark or rind of the vegetable, pilled or stripped off the stalks. From time immemorial Egypt was celebrated for the production and manufacture of flax: hence the linen and fine linen of Egypt, so often spoken of in ancient authors. Barley] hr[ seorah, from r[ saar, to stand on end, to be rough, bristly, &c.; hence r[ sear, the hair of the head, and ry[ sair, a he-goat, because of its shaggy hair; and hence also barley, because of the rough and prickly beard with which the ears are covered and defended.
Dr. Pocock has observed that there is a double seed-time and harvest in Egypt: Rice, India wheat, and a grain called the corn of Damascus, and in Italian surgo rosso, are sown and reaped at a very different time from wheat, barley and flax. The first are sown in March, before the overflowing of the Nile, and reaped about October; whereas the wheat and barley are sown in November and December, as soon as the Nile is gone off, and are reaped before May.
Pliny observes, Hist. Nat., lib. xviii., cap. 10, that in Egypt the barley is ready for reaping in six months after it is sown, and wheat in seven. In AEgypto HORDEUM sexto a satu mense, FEUMENTA septimo metuntur.
The flax was boiled.] Meaning, I suppose, was grown up into a stalk: the original is l[bg gibol, podded or was in the pod.
The word well expresses that globous pod on the top of the stalk of flax which succeeds the flower and contains the seed, very properly expressed by the Septuagint, to de linon spermatizon, but the flax was in seed or was seeding.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-35 - Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the cor above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet wa not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God causes rain or hai on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharao humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he own himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be justified when he speaks, though he speaks in thunder and lightning Yet his heart was hardened all this while. Moses pleads with God though he had reason to think Pharaoh would repent of his repentance and he told him so, yet he promises to be his friend. Moses went out of the city, notwithstanding the hail and lightning which kept Pharaoh an his servants within doors. Peace with God makes men thunder-proof Pharaoh was frightened by the tremendous judgment; but when that wa over, his fair promises were forgotten. Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies, commonly become worse __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והפשׁתה 6594 והשׂערה 8184 נכתה 5221 כי 3588 השׂערה 8184 אביב 24 והפשׁתה 6594 גבעל׃ 1392
