Exodus 8:26 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 8:26

But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

BSB

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ASV

And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

KJV

And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

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Commentary

2 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Letter 27.1-3 (397)

You tell me that you have felt a difficulty in the text We shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. But you had the means of solving it, for it is written in the book of Genesis, that a shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians, and this not on account of the shepherd himself, but of his flocks. For the Egyptians were tillers of the ground, but Abraham and Jacob, and afterwards Moses and David, were shepherds, and in this function exercised a certain kingly discipline.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

We shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians - That is, The animals which they hold sacred, and will not permit to be slain, are those which our customs require us to sacrifice to our God; and should we do this in Egypt the people would rise in a mass, and stone us to death. Perhaps few people were more superstitious than the Egyptians.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מֹשֶׁ֗ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
נָכוֹן֙	na.khOn	[is] established	H3559 →
לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת	la.'a.Sot	to do	H6213 →
כֵּ֔ן	Ken	thus	H3651 →
כִּ֚י	ki	for	H3588 →
תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת	to.'a.Vat	[the] abomination of	H8441 →
מִצְרַ֔יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
נִזְבַּ֖ח	niz.Bach	we will sacrifice	H2076 →
לַיהוָ֣ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ	'e.lo.Hei.nu	God our	H430 →
הֵ֣ן	hen	here!	H2005 →
נִזְבַּ֞ח	niz.Bach	we will sacrifice	H2076 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת	to.'a.Vat	[the] abomination of	H8441 →
מִצְרַ֛יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם	le.'ei.nei.Hem	to eyes their	H5869 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִסְקְלֻֽנוּ׃	yis.ke.Lu.nu	will they stone? us	H5619 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 44:19
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:15
  ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people…
- 1 Kings 11:5
  Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:7
  At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
- Ezekiel 40:4
  “Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought…
- Isaiah 45:20
  Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
Through
Genesis 43:32
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
leads to
- Genesis 46:34
  you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable…
Through
Genesis 46:34
you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable…
leads to
- Genesis 43:32
  They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
- Genesis 37:12
  Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Exodus