Éxodo 8:25

25 Entonces llamó Faraón a Moisés y a Aarón, y dijo: Id, ofreced sacrificio a vuestro Dios dentro del país.

Éxodo 8:25 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron
He and his people not being able to endure this plague of flies any longer; and we read in profane history of such creatures being so troublesome, that people have been obliged to quit their habitations, and seek for new ones; so Pausanias F20 relates of the inhabitants of Myus, that such a number of flies rose out of the lake, that the men were obliged to leave the city, and go to Miletus; so Aelian F21 reports, that the inhabitants of Megara were driven from thence by a multitude of flies, as were the inhabitants of Phaselis by wasps, which creatures also might be in this mixture of insects:

and said, go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land;
that is, in the land of Goshen, in the place where they were; he was willing to allow them the liberty of sacrificing to their God, which it seems they had before; but then he would not consent they should go out of the land to do it.


FOOTNOTES:

F20 Achaica, sive l. 7. p. 400.
F21 De Animal. l. 11. c. 28.

Éxodo 8:25 In-Context

23 y yo haré distinción entre mi pueblo y tu pueblo. Mañana tendrá lugar esta señal.'"
24 Y así lo hizo el SEÑOR. Y entraron grandes enjambres de insectos en la casa de Faraón y en las casas de sus siervos, y en todo el país de Egipto la tierra fue devastada a causa de los enjambres de insectos.
25 Entonces llamó Faraón a Moisés y a Aarón, y dijo: Id, ofreced sacrificio a vuestro Dios dentro del país.
26 Pero Moisés respondió: No conviene que lo hagamos así, porque es abominación para los egipcios lo que sacrificaremos al SEÑOR nuestro Dios. Si sacrificamos lo que es abominación para los egipcios delante de sus ojos, ¿no nos apedrearán?
27 Andaremos una distancia de tres días de camino en el desierto, y ofreceremos sacrificios al SEÑOR nuestro Dios, tal como El nos manda.
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