Exodus 8:16
And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth: and may there be sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.
Challoner: SciniphsOr Cinifs, Hebrew Chinnim, small flying insects, very troublesome both to men and beast.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen : Loquere ad Aaron : Extende virgam tuam, et percute pulverem terræ : et sint sciniphes in universa terra Ægypti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἶπεν δὲ Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν Εἰπὸν Ἀαρών Ἔκτεινον τῇ χειρὶ τὴν ῥάβδον σου καὶ πάταξον τὸ χῶμα τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔσονται σκνῖφες ἔν τε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ ἐν τοῖς τετράποσιν καὶ ἐν πάσῃ γῇ Αἰγύπτου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Exodus 8:12
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל מֹשֶׁה֒ אֱמֹר֙ אֶֽל אַהֲרֹ֔ן נְטֵ֣ה אֶֽת מַטְּךָ֔ וְהַ֖ךְ אֶת עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהָיָ֥ה לְכִנִּ֖ם בְּכָל אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם
Haydock's commentary
Sciniphs, or Cinifs, Hebrew Cinnim, small flying insects, very troublesome both to men and beasts. (Challoner)
Like midges. (Origen, hom. 4.) Others think they were lice. (Bochart) Pharao is not forewarned of this plague.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.