Księga Wyjścia 8:24

Biblia Warszawska

I tak Pan uczynił. I przedostało się mnóstwo much do pałacu faraona i do domów jego sług w całej ziemi egipskiej. A kraj cierpiał bardzo z powodu tych much.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Tedy uczynił tak Pan. I przyszło rozmaite robactwo ciężkie na dom Faraonów, i na dom sług jego, i na wszystkę ziemię Egipską; i psowała się ziemia od rozmaitego robactwa.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Tak też PAN uczynił. Zleciały się chmary much do pałacu faraona, do domów jego sług i do całej ziemi egipskiej. Niszczyły one ziemię.

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Uczynił tedy tak Pan. Rozliczne a ciężkie robactwa przyszły na dom faraonów i na domy sług jego, a także i na wszytkę egiptską ziemię, tak iż ziemia od nich zepsowana była.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A faraon powiedział: Zatem ja was uwolnię, byście na puszczy ofiarowali waszemu Bogu WIEKUISTEMU, jednak daleko nie odchodźcie; pomódlcie się także za mnie.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Tedy uczynił tak Pan. I przyszło rozmaite robactwo ciężkie na dom Faraonów, i na dom sług jego, i na wszystkę ziemię Egipską; i psowała się ziemia od rozmaitego robactwa.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
I PAN tak uczynił. Rozmaite uciążliwe muchy naszły dom faraona, domy jego sług i całą ziemię Egiptu. I ziemia została zniszczona przez rozmaite muchy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Exodus 8:21, Psalms 78:45, Psalms 105:31

the land: How intolerable a plague of flies can prove, is evident from the fact that whole districts have been laid waste by them. The inhabitants have been forced to quit their cities, not being able to stand against the flies and gnats with which they were pestered. Hence different people had deities whose office it was to defend them against flies. Among these may be reckoned Baalzebub, the fly-god of Ekron; Hercules, muscarum abactor, Hercules the expeller of flies; and hence Jupiter had the titles of בנןלץיןע, לץיבדסןע, לץיןקןסןע, because he was supposed to expel flies, and especially clear his temples of these insects. See Bryant. Exodus 8:14

corrupted: or destroyed

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 6:5 - mice 2 Kings 1:16 - Baalzebub Psalms 107:40 - contempt Isaiah 7:18 - fly

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" q 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 r 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 s 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.

q כבד "gravis", Montanus, "gravissime", V. L. r Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 2. c. 14. sect. 3.) s Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 8:24. The land was corrupted — Every thing was spoiled, and many of the inhabitants destroyed, being probably stung to death by these venomous insects. This seems to be intimated by the psalmist, "He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which DEVOURED them," Psalms 78:45.

In ancient times, when political, domestic, and personal cleanliness was but little attended to, and offal of different kinds permitted to corrupt in the streets and breed vermin, flies multiplied exceedingly, so that we read in ancient authors of whole districts being laid waste by them; hence different people had deities, whose office it was to defend them against flies. Among these we may reckon Baalzebub, the fly-god of Ekron; Hercules, muscarum abactor, Hercules, the expeller of flies, of the Romans; the Muagrus of the Eleans, whom they invoked against pestilential swarms of flies; and hence Jupiter, the supreme god of the heathens, had the epithets of Απομυιος and Μυωδης, because he was supposed to expel flies, and defend his worshippers against them. See Dodd.