Exodus 8:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the land.”

Cross References

Psalm 105:31

He spoke and there came swarms of flies, gnats through all their country.

Psalm 78:45

He sent swarms of insects that devoured them, frogs that destroyed them.

Exodus 10:6

They will fill your houses and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians—something your parents and your grandparents have not seen from the day they appeared on this soil until today.” With that he turned and left Pharaoh.

Exodus 8:20

This the Lord did. Thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants; throughout Egypt the land was devastated on account of the swarms of flies.

Exodus 8:22

But Moses replied, “It is not right to do so, for what we sacrifice to the Lord, our God, is abhorrent to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is abhorrent to the Egyptians before their very eyes, will they not stone us?

Exodus 8:24

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord, your God, in the wilderness, provided that you do not go too far away. Pray for me.”

Isaiah 7:18

On that day The Lord shall whistle for the fly in the farthest streams of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.