Exodus 9:21

21 but those who didn't take the Lord's word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

Exodus 9:21 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:21

And he that regarded not the word of the Lord
Or "set not his heart" ^F6 "unto it", took no notice of it, but treated it with the utmost contempt; and of this sort it may be thought there were the far greatest number: everyone of this cast left his servants and cattle in the field;
let them remain there, and took no care of them, nor thought about them, and so took no methods to preserve them; in which he acted a foolish part, to his own detriment and loss.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wbl Mv al) "non posuit cor suum", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Fagius.

Exodus 9:21 In-Context

19 Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them."

20 Those among Pharaoh's officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

21 but those who didn't take the Lord's word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.

22 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt-on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt."

23 So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.