Êxodo 8:25

25 Então o faraó mandou chamar Moisés e Arão e disse: “Vão oferecer sacrifícios ao seu Deus, mas não saiam do país”.

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 Farei distinção entre o meu povo e o seu. Este sinal milagroso acontecerá amanhã”.

24 E assim fez o SENHOR. Grandes enxames de moscas invadiram o palácio do faraó e as casas de seus conselheiros, e em todo o Egito a terra foi arruinada pelas moscas.

25 Então o faraó mandou chamar Moisés e Arão e disse: “Vão oferecer sacrifícios ao seu Deus, mas não saiam do país”.

26 “Isso não seria sensato”, respondeu Moisés; “os sacrifícios que oferecemos ao SENHOR, o nosso Deus, são um sacrilégio para os egípcios. Se oferecermos sacrifícios que lhes pareçam sacrilégio, isso não os levará a nos apedrejar?

27 Faremos três dias de viagem no deserto, e ofereceremos sacrifícios ao SENHOR, o nosso Deus, como ele nos ordena”.