Éxodo 12:30

30 Todos en Egipto se levantaron esa noche, lo mismo el faraón que sus funcionarios, y hubo grandes lamentos en el país. No había una sola casa egipcia donde no hubiera algún muerto.

Éxodo 12:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:30

And Pharaoh rose up in the night
Being awakened by the uncommon noise he heard:

he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
he and his nobles, and ministers of state, courtiers, and counsellors, and his subjects in common, perhaps everywhere in his kingdom, but particularly in the metropolis:

and there was a great cry in Egypt;
throughout the whole land, the firstborn being everywhere slain, which caused a most dreadful lamentation of parents for their eldest son, of brethren and sisters for their elder brother, and of servants and maidens for the principal and heir of the family; a cry so loud and general as perhaps was never heard before or since, and under which distress they could have no relief, or any to be their comforter, since all were in the same circumstances: for there was not a house wherein there was not one dead; for if there was no firstborn in it, as it can hardly be thought there should be in every house, though some have been of opinion that it was so ordered in Providence that there should; yet the principal or most considerable person in the family, that is next to the master, might be called the firstborn, as Jarchi notes from ( Psalms 89:27 ) . Though this may be taken as an hyperbolical expression, or, as Aben Ezra observes, it being usual with the Scripture to say that of all, which is true of the greatest part.

Éxodo 12:30 In-Context

28 y fueron y cumplieron al pie de la letra lo que el SEÑOR les había ordenado a Moisés y a Aarón.
29 A medianoche el SEÑOR hirió de muerte a todos los primogénitos egipcios, desde el primogénito del faraón en el trono hasta el primogénito del preso en la cárcel, así como a las primeras crías de todo el ganado.
30 Todos en Egipto se levantaron esa noche, lo mismo el faraón que sus funcionarios, y hubo grandes lamentos en el país. No había una sola casa egipcia donde no hubiera algún muerto.
31 Esa misma noche mandó llamar el faraón a Moisés y a Aarón, y les ordenó: «¡Largo de aquí! ¡Aléjense de mi pueblo ustedes y los israelitas! ¡Vayan a adorar al SEÑOR, como lo han estado pidiendo!
32 Llévense también sus rebaños y sus ganados, como lo han pedido, ¡pero váyanse ya, que para mí será una bendición!»
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