 | Hugh James Rose - Mines and mineral resources - 1875 - 480 pages
...the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt . . . very grievous were they. . . . For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that...trees which the hail had left : and there remained not Tiny green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field." Exod. x: 13, 14, 15. To this day that... | |
 | Agriculture - 1876 - 520 pages
...Egyptians, Exodus X., part 14 and 15 verses, "For they covered the whole earth, so that the land was darked, and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the bail had left, and there remained not any green thing in the tree or in the herbs of the field through... | |
 | John Guthrie - Bible - 1878 - 220 pages
...every tree of the field;" but a few days after we find the devastation of the locusts thus described: " They did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the rain had left" (Ex. x. 5, 15). — "All the people brake off the golden ear-rings which were in their... | |
 | Geography - 1915 - 876 pages
...the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt ; . very grievous were they. . . . For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that...herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, . . . and there remained not any green thing through all the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh . . . said... | |
 | Research - 1980 - 228 pages
...entire harvests. The Bible recounts plagues of locusts that "covered the face of the... earth" and ate "every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees." In the 1840s in Ireland the late-blight of potatoes (Phytophthora infestans) brought about the deaths... | |
 | H. L. Ellison - Bibles - 1982 - 220 pages
...they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all if> the land of Egypt.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1970 - 448 pages
...history. Called Schistocerca gregaria, the food-destroying desert locusts were recorded in the Bible as they "covered the face of the whole earth, so that...every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees. . . ." A locust invasion of Libya in 125 BC resulted in the death of 800,000 people from starvation... | |
 | Benno Jacob - Religion - 1992 - 1256 pages
...1677iey covered the surface of the entire land and the land was darkened; they consumed all the green of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. Not a single leaf remained on a tree, nor green in the field in the entire land of Egypt. Verse 12.... | |
 | Stephen N. Haskell - Literary Collections - 1993 - 452 pages
...the whole earth, 10 that the laud was darkened ; and they did eat every herh of the land, and •I 1 the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained nut any green1 thing ш the trees, or in the herhe of the field, through all the isnd of Egypt. Ea.... | |
 | Cornelis Houtman - Religion - 1993 - 486 pages
...whole land that the land was black with them. They devoured all the grass, all the crops in the field and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail had left. Nothing remained of the green on the trees, of the grass, and of the crops in the field, in all the... | |
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For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained n6t any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the... 
