in the morning watch] The night was kept with divers watches: sometimes more; sometimes fewer, but usually, one watch was from evening to midnight, another from thence to cockcrowing, and the third from that to the dawning of the day: this is thought to be about the three last houres of the night. God looked] This looking was not a bare beholding, but such a one as troubled the Egyptians: and it was some evidence of divine power, and indignation, whereby he might be known, as a man by his looks, and whereby he appeared terrible unto them, as Psalms 77:18.