Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.
New American Standard Bible
(Now the flax and the
King James Version
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Holman Bible
The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe
International Standard Version
(Now the flax and the barley were ruined because the barley was in ear and the flax was in bud.
A Conservative Version
And the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
American Standard Version
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Amplified
(Now the flax and the barley were battered and ruined [by the hail], because the barley was in the ear (ripe, but soft) and the flax was in bud,
Darby Translation
And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Julia Smith Translation
And the flax and the barley were struck: for the barley was ripe, and the flax high.
King James 2000
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley [was in the] ear and the flax [was in] bud.
Modern King James verseion
And the flax and the barley were stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax was bolled:
NET Bible
(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.
New Heart English Bible
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
The Emphasized Bible
Now, the flax and the barley, were smitten, - for the barley, was in the ear, and, the flax, was in flower;
Webster
And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
World English Bible
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the flax and the barley have been smitten, for the barley is budding, and the flax forming flowers,
Themes
Agriculture » Products of » Barley
Egypt » History of israel in » Egypt is plagued for pharaoh's obstinacy
Harvest » Of barley, before wheat
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Barley
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Flax
intercession » Answered » Instances of » of moses » For pharaoh
Interlinear
Nakah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 9:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Plague Seven: Hail
30 But as for you and your servants, I am certain that even now the fear of the Lord God will not be in your hearts. 31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower. 32 But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up.
Cross References
Ruth 1:22
So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.
Ruth 2:23
So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.
Amos 4:9
I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: