the Week of Proper 17 / Ordinary 22
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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati
Esodo 5:12
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Così il popolo si sparse per tutto il paese d’Egitto, per raccogliere della stoppia invece di paglia.
Cos il popolo si sparse per tutto il paese dEgitto, per raccogliere stoppia al posto della paglia.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
stubble: Exodus 15:7, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 47:14, Joel 2:5, Nahum 1:10, Obadiah 1:18, 1 Corinthians 3:12
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt,.... That part of it where they dwelt:
to gather stubble instead of straw; straw not being easy to come at, they were obliged to gather stubble that was left in the fields, after the corn was gathered in. Ben Melech observes, that the word signifies small straw, or small sticks of wood, and Kimchi m, and if so, this must be to burn the bricks with in the furnaces.
m Sepher Shorash, rad. קשש.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Stubble instead of straw - Rather, for the straw: i. e. to be prepared as straw. This marks the season of the year, namely, early spring, after the barley or wheat harvest, toward the end of April. Their suffering must have been severe: at that season the pestilential sand-wind blows over Egypt some 50 days, hence, its name - Chamsin. (compare Genesis 41:6 note).
