Exodus 8:21
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.
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- Ps 78:45 : 45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.
- Ps 105:31 : 31 He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
- Isa 7:18 : 18 At that time the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
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- Exod 8:22-254 verses88%
22But 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.
23I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”’”
24The 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.
25Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,“Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”
- Exod 8:28-292 verses83%
28Pharaoh said,“I will release you so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness. Only you must not go very far. Do pray for me.”
29Moses said,“I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD.”
- Exod 10:3-42 verses82%
3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
4But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- Exod 8:31-322 verses81%
31and the LORD did as Moses asked– he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!
32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.
- Exod 8:1-44 verses80%
1(7:26) Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Release my people in order that they may serve me!
2But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.
3The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.
4Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants.”’”
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20The Fourth Blow: Flies 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,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!
- Exod 8:11-133 verses76%
11The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile.”
12Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.
13The LORD did as Moses asked– the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.
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6They 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.
- Exod 9:1-22 verses75%
1The Fifth Blow: Disease Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!
2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
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1The Tenth Blow: Death The LORD said to Moses,“I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.
- Exod 8:8-92 verses75%
8Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,“Pray to the LORD that he may take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will release the people that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
9Moses said to Pharaoh,“You may have the honor over me– when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?”
- Exod 9:13-153 verses75%
13The Seventh Blow: Hail The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:“Release my people so that they may serve me!
14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.
- Exod 10:12-132 verses74%
12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”
13So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!
- Exod 9:17-182 verses74%
17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
18I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
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31He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
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4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
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45He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.
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16The Third Blow: Gnats The LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
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8All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying,‘Go, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
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23and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
- Exod 9:8-92 verses73%
8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
9It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”
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20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.
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18At that time the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
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16Tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,“Release my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness!” But until now you have not listened.
- Exod 9:20-212 verses72%
20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,
21but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
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21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
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11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”