出埃及记 8:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們就這樣行了；亞倫伸出手中的杖，擊打地上的塵土，就在人身上和牲畜身上有了虱子；埃及全地所有地上的塵土都變成了虱子。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 就 这 样 行 。 亚 伦 伸 杖 击 打 地 上 的 尘 土 ， 就 在 人 身 上 和 牲 畜 身 上 有 了 虱 子 ； 埃 及 遍 地 的 尘 土 都 变 成 虱 子 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to raise his walking stick and strike the dust on the ground. Then everywhere in Egypt the dust will change into gnats." ¹⁷ They did this, and when Aaron raised the walking stick that was in his hand and struck the dust on the ground, everywhere in Egypt the dust changed into gnats. The gnats got on the people and animals. ¹⁸ Using their tricks, the magicians tried to do the same thing, but they could not make the dust change into gnats. The gnats remained on the people and animals. ¹⁹ So the magicians told the king that the power of God had done this. But the king was stubborn and refused to listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lice in man: Psalms 105:31, Isaiah 23:9, Acts 12:23

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:16 - Stretch 1 Samuel 6:5 - mice Psalms 107:40 - contempt

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
God blessed them and said, "Have many young ones so that you may grow in number. Fill the water of the seas, and let the birds grow in number on the earth."

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 8:13
When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.

Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was completely dry.

Genesis 8:15
Then God said to Noah,

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."

Psalms 107:38
God blessed them, and they grew in number. Their cattle did not become fewer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they did so,.... As follows:

for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod; as directed and ordered:

and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast; which shows it was a miraculous operation, since lice do not usually spring from dust, but thrive in the sweat of bodies, and the nastiness of them, through sloth and idleness; and moreover, this was like the creation of man at first, which was out of the dust of the earth, and alike the effect of almighty power:

all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt; that is, the greatest part of it, not that every atom of dust became lice, nor was the land of Goshen, in which the Israelites dwelt, infected with this plague, unless where any of the Egyptians were; though Dr. Lightfoot d thinks, that lice were in Goshen as in other parts of Egypt, there being no severing between Goshen and Egypt mentioned until the next plague; and since Israel had partook of many of the sins of Egypt, they must partake of some of her punishments; and he thinks this is the reason that the plague of lice is not reckoned among the plagues of Egypt in Psalms 78:44 because it was common to Israel, and to the Egyptians, and which is the sense of Aben Ezra on Exodus 7:24. The account that Artapanus e, the Heathen historian, gives of this plague, is this;

"Moses smote the earth with a rod, and produced a certain flying animal, which greatly distressed the Egyptians, and raised ulcers in their bodies, which no physicians could cure.''

And so Origen f describes this creature as

"having wings and flying in the air, but so subtile and minute as to escape the eye, unless very sharp sighted; but when it lights upon a body, it stings most bitterly, so that what a man cannot see flying, he feels stinging.''

Both seem to design the gnat, but this sort of vermin do not stick in and abide with men or beasts, as these here are said to do, but buzz about and bite, and then are gone.

d Works, vol. 1. p. 705, 706. e Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 435.) f In Exod. Homil. 4. fol. 35. col. 2.