As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, And punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
"They shall return to Egypt ..." "Egypt is merely a type of the land of bondage, as in  Hosea 9:3,6."[25]  All of the redemptive work of God's calling and development of Israel will be nullified.  They began as a nation of slaves; very well, they shall become so again.  Given also noted the figurative nature of this expression: