Exodus 9:1

Animals sick and dying

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the LORD, the Hebrews' God, says: Let my people go so that they can worship me.

Exodus 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 9:1

Then the Lord said unto Moses
The same day the plague of the flies was removed: go in unto Pharaoh
boldly, without any fear of him or his court: and tell him, thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews:
speak in the name of Jehovah, the God whom the Hebrews worship, and who owns them for his people, and has a special love for them, and takes a special care of them, and is not ashamed to be called their God, as poor and as oppressed as they be: let my people go,
that they may serve me; this demand had been often made, and, though so reasonable, was refused.

Exodus 9:1 In-Context

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the LORD, the Hebrews' God, says: Let my people go so that they can worship me.

2 If you refuse to let them go and you continue to hold them back,

3 the LORD will send a very deadly disease on your livestock in the field: on horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and flocks.

4 But the LORD will distinguish Israel's livestock from Egypt's livestock so that not one that belongs to the Israelites will die."

5 The LORD set a time and said, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land."