Exodus 8 · Verse 27

Exodus 8:27

We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
Exodus 8:27, King James Version

Exodus 8:27 in other translations

BSBWe must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
WEBWe will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.”
ASVWe will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.
YLTA journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'
DARBYWe will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.
BBEBut 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.
WebsterWe will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he shall command us.

What does Exodus 8:27 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.

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 8:27 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.

דֶּ֚רֶךְDe.rekha journey ofH1870
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתshe.Lo.shetthreeH7969
יָמִ֔יםya.MimdaysH3117
נֵלֵ֖ךְne.Lekhwe will goH1980
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
וְזָבַ֙חְנוּ֙ve.za.Vach.nuand we will sacrificeH2076
לַֽיהוָ֣הla.Yah.wehto YahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ'e.lo.Hei.nuGod ourH430
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖רka.'a.Sherjust asH834
יֹאמַ֥רyo.Marhe saysH559
אֵלֵֽינוּ\׃'e.Lei.nuto usH413

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Cross references for Exodus 8:27

  • 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.

  • Exodus 3:12

    And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

  • 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 10:26

    Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Leviticus 10:1

    And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

  • Matthew 28:20

    Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
three days'.
3:18; 5:1
as he shall.
3:12; 10:26; 34:11; Le 10:1; Mt 28:20

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

Context

  • 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?

  • Exodus 8:27

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

  • Exodus 8:28

    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.

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Exodus 8:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Camino de tres días iremos por el desierto, y sacrificaremos á Jehová nuestro Dios, como él nos dirá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et l’ Éternel fit selon la parole de Moïse: et il retira les mouches du Pharaon, de ses serviteurs, et de son peuple; il n’en resta pas une.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Drei Tagereisen weit wollen wir in die Wüste ziehen und Jehova, unserem Gott, opfern, so wie er zu uns geredet hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Viam trium dierum pergemus in solitudinem: et sacrificabimus Domino Deo nostro, sicut præcepit nobis.