* the hand.
7:4 8:19 1Sa 5:6-11 6:9 Ac 13:11
* murrain.
We may observe a particular scope and meaning in this
calamity, if we consider it in regard to the Egyptians, which
would not have existed in respect to any other people. They
held in idolatrous reverence almost every animal, but some
they held in particular veneration; as the ox, cow, and ram.
Among these, {Apis} and {Mnevis} are well known; the former
being a sacred bull, worshipped at Memphis, as the latter was
at Heliopolis. A cow or heifer had the like honours at
Momemphis; and the same practice seems to have been adopted
in most of the Egyptian {nomes.} By the infliction of this
judgment, the Egyptian deities sank before the God of the
Hebrews. See Bryant, pp. 87-93.
5:3
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