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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
23. blasted with the east wind—destructive everywhere to grain, but particularly so in Egypt; where, sweeping over the sandy deserts of Arabia, it comes in the character of a hot, blighting wind, that quickly withers all vegetation (compare Ezekiel 19:12 ; Ho 13:15).