We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
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We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
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We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
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(8-23) We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.'
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Passages linked to Exodus 8:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 3:18 They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’
- Exodus 3:12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
- Exodus 5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”
- Exodus 10:26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
- Exodus 34:11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Leviticus 10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 8:27 We will go three days’ journey into…
Exo 8:27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Ver. 27. As he shall command us.] Manner as well as matter, circumstance as well as substance, to be heeded in God’s service; else there may be malum opus in bona materia, as one saith, - an evil work in a good matter.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For we know not what kind or number of…
For we know not what kind or number of sacrifices to offer to him till we come thither.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that…
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,.... He does not say three days, though as he allowed them to go into the wilderness and sacrifice, they could not go and come again in less time; nor would Moses have accepted of the grant, as it seems by what follows he had, if he had obliged them to less time:
only you shall not go very far away; his meaning is, as Aben Ezra observes, that they should go no further than three days' journey; he was jealous that this was only an excuse to get entirely out of his dominions, and never return more. He might have heard of their claim to the land of Canaan, and of their talk, and hope, and expectation, of going and settling there; and so understood this motion of theirs, to have leave to go into the wilderness for three days, to sacrifice to the Lord, was only a pretence; that their real intention was to proceed on in their journey to Canaan; however, being in this great distress, he made as if he was willing to grant what they desired, and very importunately urged they would pray he might be delivered from this plague:
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entreat for me; the words seem to be spoken in haste, and with great eagerness and vehemence.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain As he shall command us - For he has…
As he shall command us - For he has not yet told us what sacrifices to offer.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. And sacrifice to the Lord - as…
Verse 27. And sacrifice to the Lord - as he shall command us.] It is very likely that neither Moses nor Aaron knew as yet in what manner God would be worshipped; and they expected to receive a direct revelation from him relative to this subject, when they should come into the wilderness.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 8:27-29. As he shall command us — For…
Exo 8:27-29. As he shall command us — For he has not yet told us what sacrifices to offer. Ye shall not go very far away — Not so far but that he might fetch them back again. It is likely he suspected that if once they left Egypt they would never come back; and therefore when he is forced to consent that they shall go, yet he is not willing they should go out of his reach. See how ready God is to accept sinners’ submissions: Pharaoh only says, Entreat for me — Moses promises immediately; I will entreat the Lord — For thee; and that he might see what the design of the plague was, not to bring him to ruin but to repentance.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Three days’ journey - See the Exo 3:18 note.
Three days’ journey - See the Exo 3:18 note.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. three days’ journey] as Exo_3:18, Exo_5:3.
27. three days’ journey] as Exo_3:18, Exo_5:3.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) As he shall command us.—Comp. Exo_10:26—“We know not…
(27) As he shall command us.—Comp. Exo_10:26—“We know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Three days" journey into the wilderness. This was the…
Three days" journey into the wilderness. This was the demand made from the first (Exo_5:3) by Divine direction. (Exo_3:18) Its object was to secure the absence of Egyptians as witnesses. As he shall command us. Compare Exo_10:26, where Moses observes know not with what we must serve the Lord until we come thither." Divine directions were expected as to the number and the selection of the victims.
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