Exodus 8:27
in Exodus 8We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
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ASV
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.
KJV
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
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This verse in Exodus 8
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd 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.
This site's exposition
as he shall command us
on Exodus 8:27-28
Moses holds to the distance first named at 3:18 and repeated at 5:3, and adds that the form of the sacrifice belongs to God to set rather than to Pharaoh. The king's second offer keeps the shape of a concession and hides a limit inside it, only ye shall not go very far away, which would leave the people within reach. He closes with intreat for me, the second time in one chapter that he asks for prayer from the men he is refusing.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness,....
(3.) They must observe the divine appointment: "We will sacrifice as God shall command us, and not otherwise." Though they were in the utmost degree of slavery to Pharaoh, yet in the worship of God, they must observe his commands and not Pharaoh's.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Three days’ journey - See the Exo 3:18 note.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דֶּ֚רֶךְ | derekh | a journey of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת | sheloshet | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| יָמִ֔ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| נֵלֵ֖ךְ | nelekh | we will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר | bamidbar | in the wilderness | H4057 → | 270 times |
| וְזָבַ֙חְנוּ֙ | vezavachnu | and we will sacrifice | H2076 → | 134 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֣ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ | ʾeloheinu | God our | H430 → | 2601 times |
| כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר | kaasher | just as | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יֹאמַ֥ר | yomar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֵלֵֽינוּ׃ | ʾeleinu | to us | H413 → | 5510 times |
דֶּ֚רֶךְa journey of
derekhH1870 →707 times
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree
sheloshetH7969 →432 times
יָמִ֔יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
נֵלֵ֖ךְwe will go
nelekhH1980 →1546 times
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רin the wilderness
bamidbarH4057 →270 times
וְזָבַ֙חְנוּ֙and we will sacrifice
vezavachnuH2076 →134 times
לַֽיהוָ֣הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּGod our
ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖רjust as
kaasherH834 →5497 times
יֹאמַ֥רhe says
yomarH559 →5305 times
אֵלֵֽינוּ׃to us
ʾeleinuH413 →5510 times
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
Exodus 3:12“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will…
it leads to
- Joshua 1:5
No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
- Romans 8:31
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Deuteronomy 31:23
Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with…
- Isaiah 41:10
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand…
- Exodus 4:15
You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
- Joshua 1:5
Through
Leviticus 10:1Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.
it leads to
- Numbers 26:61
but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
- Leviticus 16:12
Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- Numbers 26:61
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 9:1
About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.