Exodus 9:32 meaning and explanation

but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)

Exodus 9:32, Berean Standard Bible

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This parenthetical note sits inside the account of the seventh plague, the hail that Moses announced to Pharaoh and that struck Egypt while sparing the Israelites in Goshen. It explains why some crops survived: barley and flax were ripe and so were destroyed, but wheat and spelt are late crops and were still young.

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