Exodus 8:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

abomination. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the act of sacrificing cattle, which was abominated by the Egyptians.

shall, &c. Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6).

Exodus 8:26

26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?