Exodus 10:14

Nova Vulgata

quae ascenderunt super universam terram Aegypti et sederunt in cunctis finibus Aegyptiorum innumerabiles, quales ante illud tempus non fuerant nec postea futurae sunt.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et Phetrusim, et Chasluim : de quibus egressi sunt Philisthiim et Caphtorim.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Qu� ascenderunt super universam terram �gypti: et sederunt in cunctis finibus �gyptiorum innumerabiles, quales ante illud tempus non fuerant, nec postea futur� sunt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the locusts: Deuteronomy 28:42, 1 Kings 8:37, Psalms 78:46, Psalms 105:34, Psalms 105:35, Revelation 9:3-7

very grievous: Exodus 10:5, Joel 1:2-4

before: Exodus 10:6, Exodus 11:6, Joel 2:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:38 - for the locust 1 Samuel 6:5 - mice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,.... Being raised up by the wind in the places where they were generated, they flew and spread themselves all over the land, being in a wonderful manner produced and multiplied by the power of God:

and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; in every part of it where the Egyptians dwelt, and where there were meadows, pastures, fields, gardens, orchards; here they lighted and fed, excepting the land of Goshen, where Israel dwelt, which must be thought to be exempted from this plague, as from the rest.

Very grievous were they; because of the mischief that they did, and because of their multitude, for they were innumerable, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, and as it is, Psalms 105:34,

there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such; there were none before, and there would be none afterwards like them, which Moses knew by a spirit of prophecy. If this is to be understood of their size, they must be very large; in the year 1556, there were locusts at Milain that were a span long, and had six feet, and these like the feet of rats, and there was one four times bigger than the rest, which was taken and kept by a citizen, and would hiss like a serpent when it saw that no food was set before it n; yea, Pliny o speaks of locusts in India three feet long; and what Moses here says is not contradicted in Joel 2:2 because his words may be understood of the Chaldean army, of which the locusts were an emblem; and besides, each may be restrained to the country in which they were, as that none ever before or since were seen in Egypt as these, though they might be in other countries; and so those in Joel's time were such as never before or since were seen in the land of Judea, though they might be in other places.

n Frantzii Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 5. c. 4. p. 800. o Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 29.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Went up - At a distance the locusts appear hanging, as it were, like a heavy cloud over the land; as they approach they seem to rise, and they fill the atmosphere overhead upon their arrival.

Over all the land - Travelers mention a cloud of locusts extending over 500 miles, and so compact while on the wing that it completely hid the sun. This passage describes a swarm unprecedented in extent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 10:14. Before them there were no such locusts, &c. — They exceeded all that went before, or were since, in number, and in the devastations they produced. Probably both these things are intended in the passage. See Exodus 10:15.