Exodus 11:7
Hebrew Bible
6 There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 7 But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark against either people or animals, so that you may know that the Lord distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.’ 8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Jubilees 49:4
Pseudepigrapha
3 This is that which the Lord gave them: into each house on whose door they saw the blood of a year-old lamb, they were not to enter that house to kill but were to pass over it in order to save all who were in the house because the sign of the blood was on its door. 4 The Lord’s forces did everything that the Lord ordered them. They passed over all the Israelites. The plague did not come on them to destroy any of them — from cattle to mankind to dogs. 5 The plague on Egypt was very great. There was no house in Egypt in which there was no corpse, crying, and mourning.
Date: 150-100 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Both Exodus and Jubilees consider animals to be a part of the children of Israel, as well as Egyptian households. Jubilees 48:5 notes that God brought many plagues on Egypt, including killing “their first-born of men and cattle” (compare Exodus 11:5; 12:12), but destroyed none of the Israelites, “from cattle to mankind to dogs” (Jubilees 49:4; compare Exodus 11:7). Interestingly, these and other texts suggest that companionship / solidarity between humans and animals was one of the reasons that God punished and/or blessed animals along with humans (Jubilees 20:9–10; 23:17–18; 44:3; 50:7, 12) ..."
Wells, A. Rahel
'One Language and One Tongue': Animal Speech in Jubilees 3:27–31
(pp. 319-337) Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2019
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