Exodus 9:31
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New International Version (©1984)
(The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.

New Living Translation (©2007)
(All the flax and barley were ruined by the hail, because the barley had formed heads and the flax was budding.

English Standard Version (©2001)
(The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
(The flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley had formed heads and the flax was in bloom.

King James Bible
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

American King James Version
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

American Standard Version
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

Bible in Basic English
And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The flax therefore and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now boiled:

Darby Bible Translation
And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

English Revised Version
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

World English Bible
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

Young's Literal Translation
And the flax and the barley have been smitten, for the barley is budding, and the flax forming flowers,

Geneva Study Bible

And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

31, 32. the flax and the barley was smitten, &c.-The peculiarities that are mentioned in these cereal products arise from the climate and physical constitution of Egypt. In that country flax and barley are almost ripe when wheat and rye (spelt) are green. And hence the flax must have been "bolled"-that is, risen in stalk or podded in February, thus fixing the particular month when the event took place. Barley ripens about a month earlier than wheat. Flax and barley are generally ripe in March, wheat and rye (properly, spelt) in April.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:22-35 Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the corn above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet was not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God causes rain or hail on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharaoh humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he owns himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be justified when he speaks, though he speaks in thunder and lightning. Yet his heart was hardened all this while. Moses pleads with God: though he had reason to think Pharaoh would repent of his repentance, and he told him so, yet he promises to be his friend. Moses went out of the city, notwithstanding the hail and lightning which kept Pharaoh and his servants within doors. Peace with God makes men thunder-proof. Pharaoh was frightened by the tremendous judgment; but when that was over, his fair promises were forgotten. Those that are not bettered by judgments and mercies, commonly become worse.


Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
Ruth 2:23 So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law. (NASB ©1995)

Almost Barley Bloom Bud Budding Cut Damaged Destroyed Ear Flax Flower Flowers Forming Headed Ready Ruined Smitten Struck

And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

flax. The word pishteh, flax, Mr. Parkhurst thinks may be derived from pashat, to strip, because the substance which we call flax is properly the filaments of the bark or rind of the vegetable, stripped off the stalks. From time immemorial, Egypt was celebrated for the production and manufacture of flax; and hence the linen and fine linen of Egypt, so often spoken of in scripture and ancient authors. The barley. The Hebrew seorah, barley, in Arabic shair, and shairat, is so called from its rough, bristly beard, with which the ears are covered and defended; from saar, to stand on end as the hair of the head; hence sear, the hair of the head. So its Latin name hordeum is from horeo, to stand on end as the hair. Dr. Pococke has observed that there is a double seed time and harvest in Egypt; rice, India wheat, and a grain called the corn of Damascus, are sown and reaped at a very different time from wheat, barley, and flax. The first are sown in March, before the overflowing of the Nile, and reaped about October; whereas the wheat and barley are sown in November and December, as soon as the Nile has gone off, and reaped before May. Ru 1:22 2:23 Am 4:9 Hab 3:17

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