Exodus 10

Exodus 10:19

The Red-sea] And so in the Greek Erythraeum, Acts VII. 36. Heb. XI. 29. signifying red: And so the Latines from them. So called, either from the seeming colour of the water from the abundance of reddish bulrushes therein; or the red sand and gravel in it; or red Corall growing in it; or red sandy mountains adjoyning to it; or why not from Edom, as the Edomean Sea, 1 King. IX. 26. He being called Red from his red colour; and the red Pottage, Gen. XXV. 25, 30. But the likeliest reason is from the Hebrew appellation, calling it the sea of weeds, or sedge, mare algsum, of flag, or rush, or tange, rack or reet, in Latin alga, Ionah II. 5. which reddish weeds in abundance grew in it, being but shoaly; and specially about the bancks of it.

Exodus 10:23

Neither rose] The Plague of Darknesse in Egypt seemes to obstruct both Candle-light, and Fire-light.