the land stank] The plague was not wholly removed at once, that it might be knowne to be (not a counterfeit, but) a true miracle, for their clearer conviction: and the frogges being gathered on heapes, that their stink might be offensive to the Egyptians, as their sinnes were to God; afterward it is like, they were partly cast into the River, and partly buried in graves, or pits, digged for them: though it be not so expressed in the Scripture.