Éxodo 9:31

31 (Todo el lino y toda la cebada quedaron destrozados por el granizo, porque la cebada estaba en espiga y el lino en flor.

Éxodo 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.

Éxodo 9:31 In-Context

29 —Muy bien —respondió Moisés—. En cuanto salga de la ciudad, levantaré mis manos y oraré al Señor
. Entonces los truenos y el granizo cesarán, y sabrás que la tierra pertenece al Señor
.

30 Sin embargo, yo sé que todavía ni tú ni tus funcionarios temen al Señor
Dios.

31 (Todo el lino y toda la cebada quedaron destrozados por el granizo, porque la cebada estaba en espiga y el lino en flor.

32 Pero ni el trigo ni la espelta sufrieron daño, porque todavía no habían brotado del suelo).

33 Entonces Moisés se fue del palacio del faraón y salió de la ciudad. Cuando elevó sus manos al Señor
, los truenos y el granizo cesaron, y se detuvo la lluvia.