Exodus 10:12-13

12, 13a (E). The locusts are brought at the signal given by Moses with his rod. Cf. Exodus 9:22-23 a, with the note.

12. (even) all that, &c. LXX. Sam. read, and all the fruit of the trees that, &c., perhaps rightly: cf. v.15, and Exodus 9:25 end.

13b (J). The sequel of v.11 in J: cf. Exodus 9:23 b, similarly after an insertion from E.

brought(first time)] led (Exodus 3:1), or brought along, the word used in Psalms 78:26 b of the wind which brought the quails.

an east wind so Psalms 78:26 a, for which the parallel clause has the south wind. The word does in fact include winds at least from the SE. The -east wind" commonly denotes the violent and scorching sirocco (from Arab. sherḳîyeh, -eastern"), often described as -drying up" vegetation, &c. (Ezekiel 17:10; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15); hence the Vulg. here has -ventus urens." -That the wind brings locusts is stated by ancient and modern authorities alike, e.g. Agatharc. p. 42, Strabo, 16. p. 772, Diod. Sic. iii. 28, Shaw, Travels(1738), p. 256" Kn.).

brought(second time)] more exactly, bore along; cf. 1 Kings 18:12 (-carried"). For the construction of the Heb., cf. Genesis 19:23; Genesis 44:3; and see G.-K.§ 164b, or the writer's Heb. Tenses, §§ 167 9.