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Ramban on Exodus 9:26/רמב"ן על שמות ט׳:כ״ו

ארַק בְּאֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן אֲשֶׁר שָׁם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּעֲבוּר שֶׁנָּטָה יָדוֹ עַל הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהוֹרִיד הַבָּרָד הָיָה רָאוּי שֶׁיֵּרֵד גַּם עַל אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן, שֶׁהָאֲוִיר שֶׁלָּהּ וְשֶׁל אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם אֶחָד הוּא, וְלָכֵן פֵּרֵשׁ הַכָּתוּב שֶׁנִּצַּל אֲוִיר אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן בַּעֲבוּר שֶׁשָּׁם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

1ONLY IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN, WHERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE, WAS THERE NO HAIL. Because Moses had stretched forth his hand toward heaven and brought down the hail,²²⁰ it should have followed that it came down also upon the land of Goshen, as the air thereof and that of Egypt are the same. Therefore Scripture explained that the air over the land of Goshen was saved [from the hail] because the children of Israel were there.