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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. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
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Verse 21. Flies. Hebrew earob. Septuagint “dog-flies.” Some include under this plague all sorts of wild beasts. Josep. ii. 13. Wisd. 11:9, 16, 18. Insects are very troublesome, and the pagans honoured Jupiter with the title of Apomuios, because he delivered them from flies. Beelzebub, “the god-fly,” got his name for the same reason. 4 Kennicott. 1:1. Calmet.
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