Exode 8:25

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

Exode 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.

Exode 8:25 In-Context

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?

27 Nous ferons trois journées de marche dans le désert, et nous offrirons des sacrifices à l'Eternel, notre Dieu, selon ce qu'il nous dira.