Exodus 8:25

25 8:21 Da forderte Pharao Mose und Aaron und sprach: Gehet hin, opfert eurem Gott hier im Lande.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 8:25 In-Context

23 8:19 und will eine Erlösung setzen zwischen meinem und deinem Volk; morgen soll das Zeichen geschehen.

24 8:20 Und der HERR tat also, und es kam viel Ungeziefer in Pharaos Haus, in seiner Knechte Häuser und über ganz Ägyptenland; und das Land ward verderbt von dem Ungeziefer.

25 8:21 Da forderte Pharao Mose und Aaron und sprach: Gehet hin, opfert eurem Gott hier im Lande.

26 8:22 Mose sprach: Das taugt nicht, daß wir also tun; denn wir würden der Ägypter Greuel opfern unserm Gott, dem HERRN; siehe, wenn wir der Ägypter Greuel vor ihren Augen opferten, würden sie uns nicht steinigen?

27 8:23 Drei Tagereisen wollen wir gehen in die Wüste und dem HERRN, unserm Gott, opfern, wie er uns gesagt hat.