出埃及记 12:30

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

在那一夜，法老本人和他所有的臣僕，以及全埃及的人都起來了；在埃及有極大的哀號，因為沒有一家不死人的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
法 老 和 一 切 臣 仆 ， 并 埃 及 众 人 ， 夜 间 都 起 来 了 。 在 埃 及 有 大 哀 号 ， 无 一 家 不 死 一 个 人 的 。

Contextual Overview

²⁹ At midnight the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt—from the firstborn of the king who sat on the throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in jail. Also, all the firstborn farm animals died. ³⁰ The king, his officers, and all the Egyptians got up during the night because someone had died in every house. So there was a loud outcry everywhere in Egypt. ³¹ During the night the king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get up and leave my people. You and your people may do as you have asked; go and worship the Lord . ³² Take all of your flocks and herds as you have asked, and go. And also bless me." ³³ The Egyptians also asked the Israelites to hurry and leave, saying, "If you don't leave, we will all die!" ³⁴ So the people took their dough before the yeast was added. They wrapped the bowls for making dough in clothing and carried them on their shoulders. ³⁵ The Israelites did what Moses told them to do and asked their Egyptian neighbors for things made of silver and gold and for clothing. ³⁶ The Lord caused the Egyptians to think well of them, and the Egyptians gave the people everything they asked for. So the Israelites took rich gifts from them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and there was a great cry: No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead! Exodus 11:6, Proverbs 21:13, Amos 5:17, Matthew 25:6, James 2:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:15 - that Exodus 10:10 - be so Exodus 10:29 - I will see Exodus 12:12 - will smite Numbers 3:13 - on the day Numbers 33:4 - buried Deuteronomy 4:34 - and by great 1 Samuel 5:12 - the cry 2 Kings 19:35 - the angel 1 Chronicles 21:14 - seventy Job 34:20 - troubled Psalms 14:3 - there Psalms 46:8 - desolations Psalms 78:51 - smote Psalms 91:6 - pestilence Psalms 105:36 - He smote Psalms 135:8 - smote Proverbs 27:22 - General Isaiah 15:1 - in the Isaiah 37:36 - and when Isaiah 44:26 - confirmeth Isaiah 47:11 - thou shalt not know Amos 4:10 - pestilence Habakkuk 3:5 - went Habakkuk 3:13 - thou woundedst Habakkuk 3:14 - the head Zechariah 12:12 - every family apart Romans 5:14 - even Revelation 3:9 - I will make them to

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh rose up in the night,.... Being awakened by the uncommon noise he heard:

he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; he and his nobles, and ministers of state, courtiers, and counsellors, and his subjects in common, perhaps everywhere in his kingdom, but particularly in the metropolis:

and there was a great cry in Egypt; throughout the whole land, the firstborn being everywhere slain, which caused a most dreadful lamentation of parents for their eldest son, of brethren and sisters for their elder brother, and of servants and maidens for the principal and heir of the family; a cry so loud and general as perhaps was never heard before or since, and under which distress they could have no relief, or any to be their comforter, since all were in the same circumstances: for there was not a house wherein there was not one dead; for if there was no firstborn in it, as it can hardly be thought there should be in every house, though some have been of opinion that it was so ordered in Providence that there should; yet the principal or most considerable person in the family, that is next to the master, might be called the firstborn, as Jarchi notes from Psalms 89:27. Though this may be taken as an hyperbolical expression, or, as Aben Ezra observes, it being usual with the Scripture to say that of all, which is true of the greatest part.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 12:30. There was a great cry — No people in the universe were more remarkable for their mournings than the Egyptians, especially in matters of religion; they whipped, beat, tore themselves, and howled in all the excess of grief. When a relative died, the people left the house, ran into the streets, and howled in the most lamentable and frantic manner. See Diod. Sicul., lib. i., and Herod., lib. ii., c. 85, 86. And this latter author happening to be in Egypt on one of their solemnities, saw myriads of people whipping and beating themselves in this manner, lib. ii., c. 60; and see Mr. Bryant on the Plagues of Egypt, where many examples are given, p. 162, c. How dreadful then must the scene of horror and distress appear when there was not one house or family in Egypt where there was not one dead and according to their custom, all the family running out into the streets bewailing this calamity!