8145. 'That we have sent Israel away from serving us?' means that they had left them alone and not brought them under their control. This is clear from the meaning of 'sending away' as leaving alone; and from the meaning of 'from serving them', when said by the Egyptians regarding the children of Israel, as refraining from assaulting them by means of falsities and from molesting them, dealt with in 7120, 7129, and from thereby bringing them under their control, 6666, 6670, 6671.