Exodus 8:21
“Kynomyia does not represent "dog fly," as the Latins translated it, with the Greek letter upsilon; according to the sense of the Hebrew the diphthong oi should be written so that the word is koinomyia, that is, "every genus of flies."”
Source: Septuagint
21And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, saying, Go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the land.
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19And I will put a difference between my people and thy people, and on the morrow shall this be on the land. And the Lord did thus.
20And the dog fly came in abundance into the houses of Pharaoh, and into the houses of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was destroyed by the dog fly.
— Exodus 8:21 —
22And Moses said, It cannot be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.
23We will go a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as the Lord said to us.