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23 I will make a difference between my people and your people. This miracle will happen tomorrow.” ’

24 That is what the Lord did. Great numbers of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into his servants' houses. The flies went all over Egypt and they destroyed the whole land.

25 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron to come to him. He said to them, ‘Go! You can offer sacrifices to your God here, in Egypt.’

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23 I will make a distinction[a] between my people and your people.(A) This sign will occur tomorrow.’”

24 And the Lord did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.(B)

25 Then Pharaoh summoned(C) Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 8:23 Septuagint and Vulgate; Hebrew will put a deliverance

23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

24 And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

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