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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Exodus 8:14

So they piled them in heaps, and the land became foul.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Frogs;   Plague;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Plague;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Frog;   Moses;   Plagues of Egypt;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Frog;   Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Frog;   Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plagues, the Ten,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Frog;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Heap;   In;   Plagues of Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
King James Version
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Lexham English Bible
And they piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.
New Century Version
The Egyptians put them in piles, and the whole country began to stink.
New English Translation
The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.
Amplified Bible
So they piled them up in heaps, and the land was detestable and stank.
New American Standard Bible
So they piled them in heaps, and the land stank.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they gathered the together by heaps, and the land stanke of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they piled them in heaps, and the land became foul.
Contemporary English Version
The dead frogs were placed in piles, and the whole country began to stink.
Complete Jewish Bible
The magicians tried with their secret arts to produce lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on people and animals.
Darby Translation
And they gathered them in heaps; and the land stank.
Easy-to-Read Version
They began to rot, and the whole country began to stink.
English Standard Version
And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
George Lamsa Translation
And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
Good News Translation
The Egyptians piled them up in great heaps, until the land stank with them.
Christian Standard Bible®
They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land.
Literal Translation
And they gathered them in heaps and heaps; and the land stunk.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& they gathered the together, here an heape, & there an heape, & the lande stanke of them.
American Standard Version
And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
Bible in Basic English
And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they gathered them together vpon heapes, and the lande had an euill smell [through them.]
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.
King James Version (1611)
And they gathered them together vpon heapes, and the land stanke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
English Revised Version
And they gathered them together in heaps: and the land stank.
Berean Standard Bible
The people piled them into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei gaderiden tho in to grete heepis, and the lond was rotun.
Young's Literal Translation
and they heap them up together, and the land stinketh.
Update Bible Version
And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they gathered them into heaps: and the land was offensive in smell.
World English Bible
They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
New King James Version
They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
New Living Translation
The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land.
New Life Bible
The people gathered them together, and the land had a bad smell.
New Revised Standard
And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they piled them up, heaps - heaps, - and the land became loathsome.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted.
Revised Standard Version
And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 2 "But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs. 3 "The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls. 4 "So the frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants."'" 5 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'" 6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7 The magicians did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat the LORD that He remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD." 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be left only in the Nile?" 10 Then he said, "Tomorrow." So he said, "May it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and the: Exodus 8:24, Exodus 7:21, Isaiah 34:2, Ezekiel 39:11, Joel 2:20

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
Genesis 8:13
Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.
Genesis 8:14
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they gathered them together upon heaps,.... Swept them up, and laid them in heaps out of the way:

and the land stank; with the stench of the dead frogs, which was another proof and evidence of the reality of the miracle; and that dead frogs will cause such an ill smell appears from the above account of what befell the inhabitants of Paeonia and Dardania, unless that should be the same with this, only the names of places and some circumstances altered; :-.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 8:14. They gathered them together upon heaps — The killing of the frogs was a mitigation of the punishment; but the leaving them to rot in the land was a continual proof that such a plague had taken place, and that the displeasure of the Lord still continued.

The conjecture of Calmet is at least rational: he supposes that the plague of flies originated from the plague of frogs; that the former deposited their ova in the putrid masses, and that from these the innumerable swarms afterwards mentioned were hatched. In vindication of this supposition it may be observed, that God never works a miracle when the end can be accomplished by merely natural means; and in the operations of Divine providence we always find that the greatest number of effects possible are accomplished by the fewest causes. As therefore the natural means for this fourth plague had been miraculously provided by the second, the Divine Being had a right to use the instruments which he had already prepared.


 
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