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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
IEksodus 8:25
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Exodus 8:8, Exodus 9:27, Exodus 10:16, Exodus 12:31, Revelation 3:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - that we may Exodus 10:9 - a feast
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 t 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 u 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.
t Achaica, sive l. 7. p. 400. u De Animal. l. 11. c. 28.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To your God - Pharaoh now admits the existence and power of the God whom he had professed not to know; but, as Moses is careful to record, he recognizes Him only as the national Deity of the Israelites.
In the land - i. e. in Egypt, not beyond the frontier.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 8:25. Sacrifice to your God in the land. — That is, Ye shall not leave Egypt, but I shall cause your worship to be tolerated here.
