Exodus 10 · Verse 9

Exodus 10:9

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.
Exodus 10:9, King James Version

Exodus 10:9 in other translations

BSB“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
WEBMoses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
ASVAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.
YLTAnd Moses saith, ‘With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'
DARBYAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we have a feast of Jehovah.
BBEAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.
WebsterAnd Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.

What does Exodus 10:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:7-11

7-11. Pharaoh's servants said--Many of his courtiers must have suffered serious losses from the late visitations, and the prospect of such a calamity as that which was threatened and the magnitude of which former experience enabled them to realize, led them to make a strong remonstrance with the king. Finding himself not seconded by his counsellors in his continued resistance, he recalled Moses and Aaron, and having…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 We will go with our young and with our old, etc. - As a feast was to be celebrated to the honor of Jehovah, all who were partakers of his bounty and providential kindness must go and perform their part in the solemnity. The men and the women must make the feast, the children must witness it, and the cattle must be taken along with them to furnish the sacrifices necessary on this occasion. This must have appeared reasonable to the Egyptians, because it was their own custom in their religious assemblies. Men, women, and children attended them, often to the amount of several hundred thousand. Herodotus informs us, in speaking of the six annual feasts celebrated by the Egyptians in honor of their deities, that they hold their chief one at the city of Bubastis in honor of Neith or Diana; that they go thither by water in boats-men, women, and children; that during their voyage some of the women play on castanets, and some of the men upon flutes, while the rest are employed in singing and clapping their hands; and that, when they arrive at Bubastis, they sacrifice a vast number of victims, and drink much wine; and that at one such festival, the inhabitants assured him, that there were not assembled fewer than 700,000 men and women, without reckoning the children - Euterpe, chap. lix., lx. I find that the ancient Egyptians called Diana Neith; this comes as near as possible to the Gaile of the Isle of Man. The moon is called yn neith or neath; and also ke-sollus, from ke, smooth or even, and sollus, light, the Smooth Light; perhaps to distinguish her from the sun, grian, from gri-tien or cri-tien, i.e., Trembling Fire; yn neith-easya, as Macpherson has it, signifies wan complexion. I should rather incline to think it may come from aise. The Celtic nations thought that the heavenly luminaries were the residences of spirits which they distinguished by the name of aise, thus grian-ais signifies the spirit of the sun. Moses and Aaron, requesting liberty for the Hebrews to go three days' journey into the wilderness, and with them all their wives, little ones, and cattle, in order to hold a feast unto Jehovah their God, must have at least appeared as reasonable to the Egyptians as their going to the city of Bubastis with their wives, little ones, and cattle, to hold a feast to Neith or Diana, who was there worshipped. The parallel in these two cases is too striking to pass unnoticed.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 10:1-11

The plagues of Egypt show the sinfulness of sin. They warn the children of men not to strive with their Maker. Pharaoh had pretended to humble himself; but no account was made of it, for he was not sincere therein. The plague of locusts is threatened. This should be much worse than any of that kind which had ever been known. Pharaoh's attendants persuade him to come to terms with Moses. Hereupon Pharaoh will allow…

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Exodus 10:9 in the original Hebrew

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
מֹשֶׁ֔הmo.ShehMosesH4872
בִּנְעָרֵ֥ינוּbin.'a.Rei.nuwith young men ourH5288
וּבִזְקֵנֵ֖ינוּu.viz.ke.Nei.nuand with old [men] ourH2205
נֵלֵ֑ךְne.Lekhwe will goH1980
בְּבָנֵ֨ינוּbe.va.Nei.nuwith sons ourH1121
וּבִבְנוֹתֵ֜נוּu.viv.no.Te.nuand with daughters ourH1323
בְּצֹאנֵ֤נוּbe.tzo.Ne.nuwith flock[s] ourH6629
וּבִבְקָרֵ֙נוּ֙u.viv.ka.Re.nuand with herds ourH1241
נֵלֵ֔ךְne.Lekhwe will goH1980
כִּ֥יkiforH3588
חַג\־chag-<the> festival ofH2282
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
לָֽנוּ\׃La.nu[will belong] to <the> us

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Cross references for Exodus 10:9

  • 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

    Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

  • Deuteronomy 31:12-13

    Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

  • Exodus 5:1

    And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

  • Exodus 3:18

    And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

  • Joshua 24:15

    And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

  • Exodus 13:6

    Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:1

    Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

  • Proverbs 3:9

    Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

  • Genesis 50:8

    And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Exodus 8:25-28

    And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

  • Numbers 29:12

    And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:

  • Psalms 148:12-13

    Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
We will go.
Ge 50:8; De 31:12,13; Jos 24:15; Ps 148:12,13; Ec 12:1; Eph 6:4
our flocks.
Pr 3:9
a feast.
3:18; 5:1,3; 8:25-28; 13:6; Nu 29:12; 1Co 5:7,8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 10:8

    And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go?

  • Exodus 10:9

    And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.

  • Exodus 10:10

    And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

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Exodus 10:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Moisés respondió: Hemos de ir con nuestros niños y con nuestros viejos, con nuestros hijos y con nuestras hijas: con nuestras ovejas y con nuestras vacas hemos de ir; porque tenemos solemnidad de Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse dit: Nous irons avec nos jeunes gens et avec nos vieillards, nous irons avec nos fils et avec nos filles, avec notre menu bétail et avec notre gros bétail; car nous avons à célébrer une fête à l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sprach Mose: Mit unseren Jungen und mit unseren Alten wollen wir ziehen, mit unseren Söhnen und mit unseren Töchtern, mit unserem Kleinvieh und mit unseren Rindern wollen wir ziehen; denn wir haben ein Fest Jehovas.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ait Moyses: Cum parvulis nostris, et senioribus pergemus, cum filiis et filiabus, cum ovibus et armentis: est enim solemnitas Domini Dei nostri.