Exodus 8:26
And Moses said, It may not be done so, for why shall we offer to the Lord our God the abominations of Egyptians; that if we shall slay before the Egyptians those things which they worship, they shall throw us down with stones.This verse in the real world
In what words
- הֵןhênlo!; also (as expressing surprise) if
- תּוֹעֵבַהtôwʻêbahproperly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatr
- זָבַחzâbachto slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
- כּוּןkûwnproperly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a grea
- מִצְרַיִםMitsrayimMitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
- מֹשֶׁהMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
- עַיִןʻayinan eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Gen 46:34, Gen 43:32, Deu 7:25–26, 2Co 6:14–17, Isa 44:19, Exo 3:18, 2Ki 23:13, 1Ki 11:5–7