They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Neither rose any from his place - literally, 'they did not rise each one from under him; i:e., from that which he had under him.' The appalling character of this calamity consisted in this, that the sun was an object of Egyptian idolatry-that the pure and serene sky of that country was never marred by the appearance of a cloud. And here, too, the Lord made a marked difference between Goshen and the rest of Egypt.