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Wycliffe Bible

Exodus 8:14

and thei gaderiden tho in to grete heepis, and the lond was rotun.

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.
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they piled them in heaps, and the land became foul.

Contextual Overview

1 Also the Lord seide to Moises, Entre thou to Farao, and thou schalt seie to hym, The Lord seith these thingis, Delyuere thou my puple, that it make sacrifice to me; sotheli if thou nylt delyuere, lo! 2 Y schal smyte alle thi termys with paddoks; 3 and the flood schal buyle out paddokis, that schulen stie, and schulen entre in to thin hows, and in to the closet of thi bed, and on thi bed, and in to `the hous of thi seruauntis, and in to thi puple, and in to thin ouenes, and in to the relyues of thi metis; 4 and the paddoks schulen entre to thee, and to thi puple, and to alle thi seruauntis. 5 And the Lord seide to Moises, Seie thou to Aaron, Hold forth thin hond on the floodis, and on the streemes, and mareis; and bryng out paddoks on the lond of Egipt. 6 And Aaron helde forth the hond on the watris of Egipt; and paddoks stieden, and hileden the lond of Egipt. 7 Forsothe and the witchis diden in lijk maner bi her enchauntementis; and thei brouyten forth paddoks on the lond of Egipt. 8 Forsothe Farao clepide Moises and Aaron, and seide to hem, Preie ye the Lord, that he do a wei the paddoks fro me, and fro my puple; and Y schal delyuere the puple, that it make sacrifice to the Lord. 9 And Moises seide to Farao, Ordeyne thou a tyme to me, whanne Y schal preie for thee, and for thi seruauntis, and for thi puple, that the paddokis be dryuun awei fro thee, and fro thin hows, and fro thi seruauntis, and fro thi puple; and dwelle oneli in the flood. 10 And he answeride, To morewe. And Moises seide, Y schal do bi thi word, that thou wite, that noon is as oure Lord God; and the paddoks schulen go awei fro thee,

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 sixe hundrid yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the secunde moneth, in the seuententhe dai of the moneth, alle the wellis of the greet see weren brokun, and the wyndowis of heuene weren opened,
Genesis 8:13
Therfor in the sixe hundrid and o yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the firste monethe, in the firste day of the monethe, watris weren decreessid on erthe; and Noe openede the roof of the schip, and bihelde and seiy that the face of the erthe was dried.
Genesis 8:14
In the secunde monethe, in the seuene and twentithe dai of the monethe, the erthe was maad drie.

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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