Exode 8:24

24 L'Eternel fit ainsi. Il vint une quantité de mouches venimeuses dans la maison de Pharaon et de ses serviteurs, et tout le pays d'Egypte fut dévasté par les mouches.

Exode 8:24 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 8:24

And the Lord did so
And this he did immediately of himself without any means; not by the rod of Aaron, to let the Egyptians see that there was nothing in that rod, that it had no magic virtue in it, and what was done by it was from the Lord himself, who could as well inflict plagues without it as with it; see ( Psalms 105:31 ) and there came a grievous swarm of flies; or a "heavy" ^F17 one, which was both very numerous, and very troublesome and distressing:

into the house of Pharaoh, and into the houses of his servants, and
into all the land of Egypt:
into the palace of Pharaoh, and into the palaces of his nobles, ministers, and courtiers, and into the dwelling places of all his subjects, throughout the whole land, excepting the land of Goshen:

the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies;
Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 says, the land lay neglected and uncultivated by the husbandmen; it may be, the air was infected by the flies, which produced a pestilence that took off many of the inhabitants; so among the Eleans, as Pliny ^F19 reports, a multitude of flies produced a pestilence; however, it is certain many of the inhabitants of Egypt perished by them; they might sting them to death, suck their blood, and poison them with their envenomed stings; see ( Psalms 78:45 ) .

F17 (dbk) "gravis", Montanus, "gravissime", V. L.
F18 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 2. c. 14. sect. 3.)
F19 Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 28.

Exode 8:24 In-Context

22 Mais, en ce jour-là, je distinguerai le pays de Gosen où habite mon peuple, et là il n'y aura point de mouches, afin que tu saches que moi, l'Eternel, je suis au milieu de ce pays.

23 J'établirai une distinction entre mon peuple et ton peuple. Ce signe sera pour demain.

24 L'Eternel fit ainsi. Il vint une quantité de mouches venimeuses dans la maison de Pharaon et de ses serviteurs, et tout le pays d'Egypte fut dévasté par les mouches.

25 Pharaon appela Moïse et Aaron et dit: Allez, offrez des sacrifices à votre Dieu dans le pays.

26 Moïse répondit: Il n'est point convenable de faire ainsi; car nous offririons à l'Eternel, notre Dieu, des sacrifices qui sont en abomination aux Egyptiens. Et si nous offrons, sous leurs yeux, des sacrifices qui sont en abomination aux Egyptiens, ne nous lapideront-ils pas?