Êxodo 8:25

25 Então chamou Faraó a Moisés e a Arão, e disse: Ide, e oferecei sacrifícios ao vosso Deus nesta terra.

Êxodo 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Êxodo 8:25 In-Context

23 Assim farei distinção entre o meu povo e o teu povo; amanhã se fará este milagre.

24 O Senhor, pois, assim fez. Entraram grandes enxames de moscas na casa de Faraó e nas casas dos seus servos; e em toda parte do Egito a terra foi assolada pelos enxames de moscas.

25 Então chamou Faraó a Moisés e a Arão, e disse: Ide, e oferecei sacrifícios ao vosso Deus nesta terra.

26 Respondeu Moisés: Não convém que assim se faça, porque é abominação aos egípcios o que havemos de oferecer ao Senhor nosso Deus. Sacrificando nós a abominação dos egípcios perante os seus olhos, não nos apedrejarão eles?

27 Havemos de ir caminho de três dias ao deserto, para que ofereçamos sacrifícios ao Senhor nosso Deus, como ele nos ordenar.