Exodus 4:6

And the Lord said furthermore unto him ,.... Continued his discourse, and gave him another sign:

put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom ; within his coat, under that part of the garment next to his breast:

and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow ; that is, white as snow, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, through the leprosy that was upon it; it was a leprosy of the white sort, and which is reckoned the worst and most difficult to be cured, see Leviticus 13:3 . It is highly probable that this gave rise to the story told by several Heathen writers, as Manetho F13 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 26. , Lysimachus F14 Apud. ib. c. 34. , Trogus F15 Justin e Trogo, l. 36. c. 2. , and Tacitus F16 Hist. l. 5. c. 3. , that Moses and the Israelites were drove out of Egypt by the advice of an oracle, because they had the leprosy, itch, and other impure diseases upon them.