in the field] This was an open plague without doores, and principally upon the cattel, and those onely that were not in some house: and if men were out of doores, it is like they were partakers of the same plague with the beasts of the field, as is threatned of the plague of haile, vers. 19. oxen and sheepe] By Oxen is meant also Kine and Bulls: such cattell the Egyptians had, though not for food of their flesh, yet for nourishment by their milke, for cloathing with their wooll of sheepe; and some, as Oxen and Horses, they made use of for their worke: and of all kinds they made commoditie by trafique with other Nations, though with divers of them they committed brutish Idolatrie. a grievous murraine] The word here translated murraine, is Chap 5. vers. 3. tearmed pestilence, and it is one and the same disease, though when it is applied to cattel, it be usually rendred by murraine; when to men, as Chap. 5. vers. 3. it is commonly called the pestilence.