Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God — within this land.”
Traditional numbering: 8:25
In context
19I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will happen tomorrow.” 20And Yahweh did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into the house of Pharaoh and his servants’ houses, and throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the flies. 21Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God — within this land.” 22But Moses said, “That would not be right, for what we sacrifice to Yahweh our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice before their eyes what they detest, will they not stone us? 23We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he commands us.”
