Gen 43:32, 46:34, Deu 7:25-26, 12:30-31, Ezr 9:1, Isa 44:19 | TSK | STEP | eat bread. for that is an abomination.The Chaldee Paraphrast renders this clause, "Because the Hebrews eat the cattle which the Egyptians worship." But, as we learn from ver. 16, compared with this verse, that the provision for the entertainment of the Egyptians themselves was animal food, this reason cannot be just. The true reason seems to be that assigned by the LXX., [Bedlyma gar estin tois Aigyptiois pas poimén probaton:] "For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

Genesis 43:32

eat bread.

for that is an abomination.The Chaldee Paraphrast renders this clause, "Because the Hebrews eat the cattle which the Egyptians worship." But, as we learn from ver. 16, compared with this verse, that the provision for the entertainment of the Egyptians themselves was animal food, this reason cannot be just. The true reason seems to be that assigned by the LXX., [Bedlyma gar estin tois Aigyptiois pas poimén probaton:] "For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

46:34; Ex 8:26

Genesis 46:34

Thy servants.

32; 30:35; 34:5; 37:12

for every.From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.

43:32; Ex 8:26

Deuteronomy 7:25-26

graven.

5; 12:3; Ex 32:20; 1Ch 14:12; Isa 30:22

thou shalt.

Jos 7:1,21

snared.

Jud 8:24-27; Zep 1:3; 1Ti 6:9,10

an abomination.

17:1; 23:18; Re 17:5

shalt.

13:17; Le 27:28,29; Jos 6:17-24; 7:1-25,11-26; Eze 14:7

Hab 2:9-11; Zec 5:4

but thou shalt.

Isa 2:20; 30:22; Eze 11:18; Ho 14:8; Ro 2:22

Deuteronomy 12:30-31

that thou.

7:16; Ex 23:31-33; Le 18:3; Nu 33:52; Jud 2:2,3; 2Ki 17:15

Ps 106:34-38; Eze 20:28

by following. Heb. after. How did.

Jer 10:2; Eze 20:32; Ro 12:2; Eph 4:17; 1Pe 4:3,4

Thou.

4; 18:9; Ex 23:2; Le 18:3,26-30; 2Ki 17:15-17; 21:2; 2Ch 33:2

2Ch 36:14

abomination to the. Heb. abomination of the. even theirsons. The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already (Note on Lev 20:2) referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. xx.) which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!"

18:10; Le 18:21; 20:2; Jer 7:31; 32:35; Eze 20:31; 23:27; Mic 6:7