1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 9:1	And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
Exodus 9:2	But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
Exodus 9:3	Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.	My hand. God inflicts the fourth, fifth, and tenth plagues without Moses.
Exodus 9:4	And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.
Exodus 9:5	And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To-morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.	Land. Moses related all this to the king, according to the Samaritan copy.
Exodus 9:6	The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.	All the beasts. That is, many of all kinds. (Challoner) --- So it is said, (Jeremias 9:26,) all the nations are uncircumcised, though some few observed the rite of circumcision with the Jews. (Haydock)
Exodus 9:7	And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.	Hardened. He did not beg for a deliverance, as the beasts were dead. (Menochius)
Exodus 9:8	And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence of Pharao.
Exodus 9:9	And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of Egypt.	Blains. Pestiferous buboes or burning swellings. (Calmet) --- Thus were the pride and luxury of the Egyptians punished by Moses; and they who had kept the Hebrews in an iron furnace, were themselves scorched with fiery ashes and ulcers. (Menochius)
Exodus 9:10	And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling blains in men and beasts.
Exodus 9:11	Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.	Stand before to oppose Moses. They could not screen themselves. (Haydock)
Exodus 9:12	And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.	Hardened, etc. See the annotations above, Exodus 5:21, Exodus 7:3, and Exodus 8:15. (Challoner) --- The wicked man, when he is come into the depth of sins, condemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him, Proverbs 18:3.
Exodus 9:13	And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
Exodus 9:14	For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know there is none like me in all the earth.	Plagues of fire and hail, that thy heart may relent. But as all my chastisements will not produce this effect, I will be glorified in thy fall. (Haydock) --- I could now strike thee dead; (ver. 15,) but I reserve thee for a more dreadful punishment, (ver. 17,) in the waters of the Red Sea. (Calmet)
Exodus 9:15	For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.	Pestilence, or various evils which now came fast upon Pharao. (Menochius)
Exodus 9:16	*And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth. Romans 9:17.	Raised thee to the throne, or preserved thee hitherto from the former plagues. God disposes of things in such a manner, as to draw good out of the evil designs of men. (St. Augustine, City of God 11:17; Romans 9:17.) (Calmet)
Exodus 9:17	Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?
Exodus 9:18	Behold I will cause it to rain to-morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.
Exodus 9:19	Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields which the hail shall fall upon, shall die.	Cattle. Some had escaped the former plague, or the Egyptians had purchased more from their neighbours, and in the land of Gessen. (Haydock) --- God tempers justice with mercy. (St. Augustine, q. 33.) --- Die. This message was accordingly delivered to Pharao. (Samaritan copy) (Haydock)
Exodus 9:20	He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses:
Exodus 9:21	But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the fields.
Exodus 9:22	And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 9:23	*And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. Wisdom 16:16.; Wisdom 19:19.
Exodus 9:24	And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.	In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but the Samaritan and some Hebrew manuscripts have simply in Egypt. (Kennicott) --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some parts of Egypt, (Menochius) particularly about Tanis, ver. 18, 34. (Calmet) (Wisdom 16:17.)
Exodus 9:25	And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.
Exodus 9:26	Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.
Exodus 9:27	And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked.
Exodus 9:28	Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.
Exodus 9:29	Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's:
Exodus 9:30	But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.
Exodus 9:31	The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled:
Exodus 9:32	But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.	Lateward. The hail fell in February. (Bonfrere) Aristophanes (in Avibus) says, the Egyptians and Phenicians have their harvest when the cuckoo begins to sing. The month Nisan, which answers to part of March and April, was honoured with the first fruits, Exodus 13:4. (Menochius)
Exodus 9:33	And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.
Exodus 9:34	And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin:
Exodus 9:35	And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.	Hard. Hebrew, "and he hardened his heart." (Worthington)