Exodus 8:27 Parallel Translations

We need to travel three days into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he told us to do."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

ASV:

We will go three days journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.

BBE:

But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

DBY:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.

ERV:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

JPS:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.'

WBS:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he shall command us.

WEB:

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."

YLT:

A journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'

Exodus 8:27 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 3:18 "They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

Exodus 5:3 Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

8:27 As he shall command us - For he has not yet told us what sacrifices to offer.

MHC:

8:20-32 Pharaoh was early at his false devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber, when any service to the Lord is to be done? The Egyptians and the Hebrews were to be marked in the plague of flies. The Lord knows them that are his, and will make it appear, perhaps in this world, certainly in the other, that he has set them apart for himself. Pharaoh unwillingly entered into a treaty with Moses and Aaron. He is content they should sacrifice to their God, provided they would do it in the land of Egypt. But it would be an abomination to God, should they offer the Egyptian sacrifices; and it would be an abomination to the Egyptians, should they offer to God the objects of the worship of the Egyptians, namely, their calves or oxen. Those who would offer acceptable sacrifice to God, must separate themselves from the wicked and profane. They must also retire from the world. Israel cannot keep the feast of the Lord, either among the brick-kilns or among the flesh-pots of Egypt. And they must sacrifice as God shall command, not otherwise. Though they were in slavery to Pharaoh, yet they must obey God's commands. Pharaoh consents for them to go into the wilderness, provided they do not go so far but that he might fetch them back again. Thus, some sinners, in a pang of conviction, part with their sins, yet are loth they should go very far away; for when the fright is over, they will turn to them again. Moses promised the removal of this plague. But let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: if we think to cheat God by a sham repentance and a false surrender of ourselves to him, we shall put a fatal cheat upon our own souls. Pharaoh returned to his hardness. Reigning lusts break through the strongest bonds, and make men presume and go from their word. Many seem in earnest, but there is some reserve, some beloved, secret sin. They are unwilling to look upon themselves as in danger of everlasting misery. They will refrain from other sins; they do much, give much, and even punish themselves much. They will leave it off sometimes, and, as it were, let their sin depart a little way; but will not make up their minds to part with all and follow Christ, bearing the cross. Rather than that, they venture all. They are sorrowful, but depart from Christ, determined to keep the world at present, and they hope for some future season, when salvation may be had without such costly sacrifices; but, at length, the poor sinner is driven away in his wickedness, and left without hope to lament his folly.

CONC:

Command Commands Desert Journey Offer Offering Orders Sacrifice Sacrificed Sacrifices Waste Wilderness

Command Commands Desert Journey Offer Offering Sacrifice Sacrificed Sacrifices Three Three-Day Waste Wilderness

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