Exodus 10:9
in Exodus 10“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.”
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ASV
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 Jehovah.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Exodus 10
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
With our young ... - The demand was not contrary to Egyptian usage, as great festivals were kept by the whole population.
This site's exposition
but who are they that shall go
on Exodus 10:8-9
Pharaoh grants the words Go, serve the LORD your God and then asks for the terms, and the terms are what the rest of the chapter is fought over. Moses answers with everyone and everything, the young and the old, the sons and the daughters, the flocks and the herds, and grounds it on the request first made at 5:1, that we must hold a feast unto the LORD. The reason he gives is the service itself, which is the thread the book carries from the bondage of 1:13 and 1:14 to the order of worship in chapter 40.
This site's exposition
We will go with our young and old
Pharaoh has asked who will go, and Moses answers that everyone will: young and old, sons and daughters, with the flocks and herds. A feast to the LORD requires the whole people and their animals. Albert Barnes notes that the demand fit Egyptian custom, since great festivals were kept by the whole population.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Moses said, we will go with our young and with our old,....
Pharaoh will by no means grant this: he will allow the men to go, pretending that this was all they desired, though this matter was never yet mentioned in any of the former treaties; but, for the little ones, he resolves to keep them as hostages, to oblige them to return,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
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. […]
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֔ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| בִּנְעָרֵ֥ינוּ | binareinu | with young men our | H5288 → | 239 times |
| וּבִזְקֵנֵ֖ינוּ | uvizkeneinu | and with old [men] our | H2205 → | 178 times |
| נֵלֵ֑ךְ | nelekh | we will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בְּבָנֵ֨ינוּ | bevaneinu | with sons our | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וּבִבְנוֹתֵ֜נוּ | uvivnotenu | and with daughters our | H1323 → | 588 times |
| בְּצֹאנֵ֤נוּ | betzonenu | with flock[s] our | H6629 → | 274 times |
| וּבִבְקָרֵ֙נוּ֙ | uvivkarenu | and with herds our | H1241 → | 183 times |
| נֵלֵ֔ךְ | nelekh | we will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חַג־ | chag- | <the> festival of | H2282 → | 62 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לָֽנוּ׃ | lanu | [will belong] to <the> us |
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
בִּנְעָרֵ֥ינוּwith young men our
binareinuH5288 →239 times
וּבִזְקֵנֵ֖ינוּand with old [men] our
uvizkeneinuH2205 →178 times
נֵלֵ֑ךְwe will go
nelekhH1980 →1546 times
בְּבָנֵ֨ינוּwith sons our
bevaneinuH1121 →4930 times
וּבִבְנוֹתֵ֜נוּand with daughters our
uvivnotenuH1323 →588 times
בְּצֹאנֵ֤נוּwith flock[s] our
betzonenuH6629 →274 times
וּבִבְקָרֵ֙נוּ֙and with herds our
uvivkarenuH1241 →183 times
נֵלֵ֔ךְwe will go
nelekhH1980 →1546 times
כִּ֥יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
חַג־<the> festival of
chag-H2282 →62 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
לָֽנוּ׃[will belong] to <the> us
lanu
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
it leads to
- Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
- Psalms 71:17–18
O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Luke 18:16
But Jesus called the children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Lamentations 3:27
Through
Exodus 3:18The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with…
it leads to
- Exodus 9:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Exodus 7:16
Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not…
- Exodus 9:1
Through
Exodus 5:1After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in…
it leads to
- Acts 4:29
And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,
- Acts 4:29
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.