Exodus 8 · Verse 25

Exodus 8:25

And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
Exodus 8:25, King James Version

Exodus 8:25 in other translations

BSBThen Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”
WEBPharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
ASVAnd Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
YLTAnd Pharaoh calleth unto Moses and to Aaron, and saith, ‘Go, sacrifice to your God in the land;'
DARBYAnd Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.
BBEAnd Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.
WebsterAnd Pharaoh called for Moses, and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

What does Exodus 8:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 8:25-32
25-32. Pharaoh called for Moses, ... Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land, &c.--Between impatient anxiety to be freed from this scourge and a reluctance on the part of the Hebrew bondsmen, the king followed the course of expediency; he proposed to let them free to engage in their religious rites within any part of the kingdom. But true to his instructions, Moses would accede to no such arrangement; he stated a most valid reason to show the danger of it, and the king having yielded so far as to allow them a brief holiday across the border, annexed to this concession a request that Moses would entreat with Jehovah for the removal of the plague. He promised to do so, and it was removed the following day. But no sooner was the pressure over than the spirit of Pharaoh, like a bent bow, sprang back to its wonted obduracy, and, regardless of his promise, he refused to let the people depart.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Sacrifice to your God in the land - That is, Ye shall not leave Egypt, but I shall cause your worship to be tolerated here.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 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…

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Exodus 8:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּקְרָ֣אvai.yik.Ra'and he summonedH7121
פַרְעֹ֔הfar.'OhPharaohH6547
אֶל\־'el-<to>H413
מֹשֶׁ֖הmo.ShehMosesH4872
וּֽלְאַהֲרֹ֑ןu.le.'a.ha.Ronand <to> AaronH175
וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
לְכ֛וּle.KhugoH1980
זִבְח֥וּziv.ChusacrificeH2076
לֵֽאלֹהֵיכֶ֖םle.lo.hei.Khemto God yourH430
בָּאָֽרֶץ\׃ba.'A.retzin the landH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 8:25

  • Exodus 8:8

    Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.

  • Exodus 9:27

    And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

  • Exodus 10:16

    Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

  • Exodus 12:31

    And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.

  • Revelation 3:9

    Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8; 9:27; 10:16; 12:31; Re 3:9

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

Context

  • Exodus 8:24

    And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

  • Exodus 8:25

    And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

  • Exodus 8:26

    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?

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Exodus 8:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces Faraón llamó á Moisés y á Aarón, y díjoles: Andad, sacrificad á vuestro Dios en la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse dit: Voici, je sors d’auprès de toi, et je supplierai l’ Éternel, et demain les mouches se retireront du Pharaon, de ses serviteurs, et de son peuple; seulement, que le Pharaon ne continue pas à se moquer, en ne laissant pas aller le peuple pour sacrifier à l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und der Pharao rief Mose und Aaron und sprach: Gehet hin und opfert eurem Gott in dem Lande.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vocavitque Pharao Moysen et Aaron, et ait eis: Ite et sacrificate Deo vestro in terra hac.