Exodus 8:14 “They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench…”

Exodus 8:14

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

World English Bible

They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

American Standard Version

And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they gathered the together by heaps, and the land stanke of them.

Darby Translation

And they gathered them in heaps; and the land stank.

Young's Literal Translation

and they heap them up together, and the land stinketh.

Bible in Basic English

And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.

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Cross references

“and the”

Exodus 8:24 Exodus 7:21 Isaiah 34:2 Ezekiel 39:11 Joel 2:20

Exodus 8:24 · BSB

And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.

Exodus 7:21 · BSB

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 34:2 · BSB

The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

Ezekiel 39:11 · BSB

And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called th…

Joel 2:20 · BSB

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13And the LORD did as Moses requested, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.

15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

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