...departure of the Israelites. Both the flax and the barley crops suffered in the plague of hail ; " for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled ;" this, incidentally) enables us to fix the time or season in which the plagues were inflicted ; for...

...imaginable, for the mention of the hail draws from the historian who records it the remark, that " the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley...wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," (or rather perhaps, were not out of sheath.1) Now this is precisely such a degree of forwardness...

...cultivator, and of employment to the people. Several lively allusions occur in the Sacred Scriptures. "The flax and the barley were smitten ; for the barley...wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up." From this simple statement we discover the accuracy of the Mosaic account, for in England...

...corroborates the statement of Moses, that " the flax and the barley were smitten (by the plague of hau); for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled....wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up." The corn was cut with a sickle, the îhape of which bears a considerable resemblance to...

...Pharaoh, we are informed that the result of the plague of hail was, that " the flax and the barley was smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye [or spelt] were not smitten, for they were not grown up."* From ancient writers, as well as from the...

...early in spring ; for in the narrative of " the plague of hail," we are told by the sacred writer that "the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the fax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up." * The plague...

...Kai y ôXvpa OVK cVXqyijirav, Щпца yàp r¡v. Ли. Ver. — 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. 32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up [Heb., hidden, or, dark]....

...stand. Hence, as Martyn observes, may be explained Exod. ix. 31, 32 : " And the flax and the barley was smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled (in blossom). But the wheat and the spelt (not rye) were not smitten, for they were not grown up (were...

...that "the flax and the barky were smitten; for the larky was in the ear, and the flax was boiled, liut the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown vp" * The, plague of hail must therefore have fallen upon the land of Egypt early in March ;...

...In the account of the terrific hailstorm with which the land was visited, we find it stated : " And the flax and the barley were smitten ; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled." The latter expression appears to signify that the plant was then in bloom. In the next verse we read...