Exodus 8:21 (KJV)
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Else if thou wilt not let my people gobehold I will send swarmsof flies upon thee and upon thy servantsand upon thy peopleand into thy housesand the housesof the Egyptiansshall be fullof swarmsof flies and also the groundwhereon they are
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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. Ps 78:45 Ps 105:31 Isa 7:18
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