Êxodo 9:31

31 Ora, o linho e a cevada foram danificados, porque a cevada já estava na espiga, e o linho em flor;

Êxodo 9:31 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:31

And the flax and the barley was smitten
With the hail, thunder, and lightning, and were beat down, bruised, broken, and blasted, and destroyed; of the former there were great quantities produced in Egypt, which was famous for linen, much was made there, and there were many that wrought in fine flax, see ( Isaiah 19:9 ) and the latter were used not only to feed their cattle, but to make a drink of, as we do, ale and strong beer; and so the Egyptians use it to this day, as Dr. Shaw ^F16 says, both to feed their cattle, and after it is dried and parched, to make a fermented, intoxicating liquor, called "bonzah"; probably the same with the barley wine of the ancients, and a species of the "sicar", or strong drink of the Scriptures: for the barley [was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled;
or in the stalk, quite grown up, and so the ears of the one were beat off, and the stalks of the other battered with the hail, and broken and destroyed.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Travels, tom. 2. c. 2. sect. 5. p. 407. Ed. 2.

Êxodo 9:31 In-Context

29 Respondeu-lhe Moisés: Logo que eu tiver saído da cidade estenderei minhas mãos ao Senhor; os trovões cessarão, e não haverá, mais saraiva, para que saibas que a terra é do Senhor.

30 Todavia, quanto a ti e aos teus servos, eu sei que ainda não temereis diante do Senhor Deus.

31 Ora, o linho e a cevada foram danificados, porque a cevada já estava na espiga, e o linho em flor;

32 mas não foram danificados o trigo e a espelta, porque não estavam crescidos.

33 Saiu, pois, Moisés da cidade, da presença de Faraó, e estendeu as mãos ao Senhor; e cessaram os trovões e a saraiva, e a chuva não caiu mais sobre a terra.