Kneadingtroughs - (Compare the marginal note and Deuteronomy 28:5). The troughs were probably small wooden bowls in which the cakes when bak…

Kneadingtroughs. — Light, portable wooden bowls, such as are now used by the Arabs.

And the people took their dough before it was leavened
They had that evening mixed their flour with water, and made …

The Egyptians had been kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness for three days and nights; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calami…