Exodus 8:21

New English Translation

If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

Cross References

Psalm 105:31

He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

Psalm 78:45

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

Exodus 10:6

They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 8:20

The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Release my people that they may serve me!

Exodus 8:22

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Exodus 8:24

The Lord did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh’s house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

Isaiah 7:18

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.