Verse 21
Exodus 8:21
World English Bible
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Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְרָ֣א פַרְעֹ֔ה אֶל מֹשֶׁ֖ה וּֽ/לְ/אַהֲרֹ֑ן וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר לְכ֛וּ זִבְח֥וּ לֵֽ/אלֹהֵי/כֶ֖ם בָּ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And Pharaoh called to Moses and to Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."
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Chapter 8 Context
1
Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, “This is what Yahweh says, ‘Let my people go,...
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If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
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and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedr...
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and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.’”
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the st...
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Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land o...
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The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt....
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from...
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9
Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for...
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He said, “Tomorrow.”
He said, “Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one...
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The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people....
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Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had b...
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Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts,...
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They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
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But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as...
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it...
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17
They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and th...
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18
The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on m...
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19
Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God (Elohim)’s finger:” and Pharaoh’s heart was hardene...
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20
Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out...
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Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your serv...
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I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies s...
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I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign be.”’”
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Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his serva...
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Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God (Elohim) in the land!”
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Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians...
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We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God (Elohim), as he...
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Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God (Elohim) in the wilderne...
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Moses said, “Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depar...
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Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
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Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his...
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Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
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