Exodus 10:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the LORD our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the LORD.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 12:32 : 32 Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”
  • Prov 3:9 : 9 Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;
  • Isa 23:18 : 18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the LORD. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the LORD’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes.
  • Isa 60:5-9 : 5 Then you will look and smile, you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. For the riches of distant lands will belong to you and the wealth of nations will come to you. 6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, young camels from Midian and Ephah. All the merchants of Sheba will come, bringing gold and incense and singing praises to the LORD. 7 All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. They will go up on my altar acceptably, and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple. 8 Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters? 9 Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you. 10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.
  • Hos 5:6 : 6 The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!
  • Zech 14:20 : 20 On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription“HOLY TO THE LORD.” The cooking pots in the LORD’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar.
  • Acts 2:44-45 : 44 All who believed were together and held everything in common, 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 10:8-11
    4 verses
    82%

    8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them,“Go, serve the LORD your God. Exactly who is going with you?”

    9Moses said,“We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the LORD.”

    10He said to them,“The LORD will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

    11No! Go, you men only, and serve the LORD, for that is what you want.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.

  • 81%

    24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said,“Go, serve the LORD– only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you.”

    25But Moses said,“Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?

  • Exod 8:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

    27We must go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as he is telling us.”

  • 75%

    16The people responded,“Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!

    17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

    18The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”

  • 27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

  • Num 10:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

    32And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the LORD will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

  • 40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

  • 73%

    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

    16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

  • 38A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds– a very large number of cattle.

  • 16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • 36We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God.

  • 3And they said,“The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.”

  • Num 32:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

    27but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD’s presence, just as my lord says.”

  • 21but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

  • 71%

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

    13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • 29The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to the place about which the LORD said,‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel.”

  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.

    18We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

  • 23They said to me,‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

  • 4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • 4the land that the LORD subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

  • 6Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

  • 1 Sam 6:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

    7So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

  • 17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”

  • 8Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

  • 32Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

  • 18“The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

  • Exod 9:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

    3then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

    4But the LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

  • 32We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”

  • 30But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”

  • 3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • 27but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’