Éxodo 10:13

13 Moisés extendió su vara sobre Egipto, y el Señor
hizo que un viento del oriente soplara sobre el territorio todo ese día y también durante toda la noche. A la mañana siguiente, el viento del oriente había traído las langostas.

Éxodo 10:13 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 10:13

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt
His hand, with his rod in it:

and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land,
all that day and all that night; all that day after he had been driven from Pharaoh, and after he had stretched out his hand with his rod in it over Egypt, which was the seventh of the month Abib, and all the night following. This Jehovah did, who holds the winds in his fist, and brings them out of his treasures, whose will they obey, and whose word they fulfil:

and when it was morning;
the morrow was come, ( Exodus 10:4 ) the eighth day of the month Abib:

the east wind brought the locusts;
it was usual for these creatures to be taken up and carried with the wind, and brought into countries, as Pliny ^F7 and other writers attest. In the year 1527, a strong wind brought vast troops of locusts out of Turkey into Poland, which did much mischief; and in the year 1536 a wind from the Euxine Pontus brought such vast numbers of them into Podolia, as that for twenty miles round they devoured everything ^F8. The word here used commonly signifies the east wind, and so the Jewish writers unanimously interpret it; and if those locusts were brought from the Red sea, into which they were carried, it must be by an east wind, since the Red sea was east of Egypt; but the Septuagint version renders it the "south wind", and which is approved of by De Dieu on the place, and by Bochart {i}; and the latter supposes these locusts were brought by a south wind out of Ethiopia, which lay to the south of Egypt, and where in the spring of the year, as it now was, were usually great numbers of locusts, and where were a people that lived upon them, as Diodorus Siculus ^F11 and Strabo ^F12 relate; who both say that at the vernal equinox, or in the spring, the west and southwest winds blowing strongly brought locusts into those parts; and the south wind being warm might contribute to the production, cherishing, and increasing of these creatures, and which are sometimes brought by a south wind. Dr. Shaw says ^F13, the locusts he saw in Barbary, An. 1724 and 1725, were much bigger than our common grasshoppers, and had brown spotted wings, with legs and bodies of a bright yellow; their first appearance was toward the latter end of March, the wind having been for some time from the south.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.
F8 Frantzii Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 5. c. 4. p. 794.
F9 Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 1. c. 15. col. 101, 102, & l. 4. c. 3. col. 463. Vid. Jablonski de Terra Goshen, Dissertat. 5. sect. 5.
F11 Bibliothec, l. 3. p. 162.
F12 Geograph. l. 16. p. 531.
F13 Travels, p. 187. Edit. 2.

Éxodo 10:13 In-Context

11 ¡Jamás! Solo los hombres pueden ir a adorar al Señor
, ya que eso es lo que pidieron.
Entonces el faraón los echó del palacio.

12 Así que el Señor
le dijo a Moisés: «Extiende tu mano sobre la tierra de Egipto para que vengan las langostas. Que cubran la tierra y devoren todas las plantas que sobrevivieron la granizada».

13 Moisés extendió su vara sobre Egipto, y el Señor
hizo que un viento del oriente soplara sobre el territorio todo ese día y también durante toda la noche. A la mañana siguiente, el viento del oriente había traído las langostas.

14 Estas invadieron toda la tierra de Egipto en densos enjambres, y se asentaron desde un extremo del territorio hasta el otro. Fue la peor plaga de langostas en la historia de Egipto, y jamás hubo otra igual;

15 pues las langostas cubrieron todo el reino y oscurecieron la tierra. Devoraron todas las plantas del campo y todos los frutos de los árboles que sobrevivieron al granizo. No quedó ni una sola hoja en los árboles ni en las plantas en toda la tierra de Egipto.