Éxodo 9:31

31 El lino, pues, y la cebada fueron heridos; porque la cebada estaba ya espigada, y el lino en caña.

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 Y le respondió Moisés: Saliendo yo de la ciudad extenderé mis manos al SEÑOR, y los truenos cesarán, y no habrá más granizo; para que sepas que del SEÑOR es la tierra.

30 Mas yo te conozco a ti y a tus siervos de antes que temieseis de la presencia del SEÑOR Dios.

31 El lino, pues, y la cebada fueron heridos; porque la cebada estaba ya espigada, y el lino en caña.

32 Mas el trigo y el centeno no fueron heridos; porque eran tardíos.

33 Y salido Moisés de la presencia de Faraón y de la ciudad, extendió sus manos al SEÑOR, y cesaron los truenos y el granizo; y la lluvia no cayó más sobre la tierra.