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Exd 8:21 — Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground whereon they [are].

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

swarms		or, a mixture of noisome beasts, etc. The word arov is rendered [kunomwea] kunomuia,] the dog-fly, by the LXX. (who are followed by the learned Bochart,) which must have been particularly hateful to the Egyptians, because they held dogs in the highest veneration, under which form they worshipped Anubis. Psa 78:45; Psa 105:31; Isa 7:18

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swarms

	Psa 78:45	He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
	Psa 105:31	He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.
	Isa 7:18	And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 8:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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