Exodus 9:21

21 And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord, left the cattle in the fields.

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Exodus 9:21 In-Context

19 Now then hasten to gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the fields; for all the men and cattle as many as shall be found in the fields, and shall not enter into a house, (but the hail shall fall upon them,) shall die.
20 He of the servants of Pharao that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.
21 And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord, left the cattle in the fields.
22 And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thine hand to heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on the men and on the cattle, and on all the herbage on the land.
23 And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt.

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