Exodus 8:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 3:18 : 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 3:12 : 12 He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”
  • Exod 5:1 : 1 Opposition to the Plan of God Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said,‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the wilderness.’”
  • Exod 10:26 : 26 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.”
  • Exod 34:11 : 11 “Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Lev 10:1 : 1 Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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  • Exod 3:18
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    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 5:3
    83%

    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.”

  • Exod 8:25-26
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    25Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,“Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

    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?

  • Exod 10:8-9
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    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.”

  • Exod 8:28
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    28Pharaoh said,“I will release you so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness. Only you must not go very far. Do pray for me.”

  • Exod 10:24-26
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    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?

    26Our 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.”

  • Deut 2:1-2
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    1The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness on the way to the Red Sea just as the LORD told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

    2At this point the LORD said to me,

  • Num 10:32-33
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    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.”

    33So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

  • Deut 1:19
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    19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • Exod 5:1
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    1Opposition to the Plan of God Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said,‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the wilderness.’”

  • Deut 1:40-41
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    40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

    41Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan Then you responded to me and admitted,“We have sinned against the LORD. We will now go up and fight as the LORD our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

  • Num 33:1-2
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    1Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

    2Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
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    8He then asked,“Which invasion route are we going to take?” Jehoram answered,“By the road through the wilderness of Edom.”

  • Exod 14:12
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    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!’”

  • Acts 7:40
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    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!’

  • Num 10:29
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    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.”

  • Exod 19:8
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

  • Num 10:13
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    13Judah Begins the Journey This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • Exod 24:3
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    3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”

  • Exod 14:1
    72%

    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:3-4
    2 verses
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    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?”

    4So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

  • Exod 12:28
    72%

    28and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

  • Exod 13:20
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    20They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

  • Num 14:26
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    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Josh 22:29
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    29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

  • Num 28:1
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    1Daily Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 8:1
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    1(7:26) Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said:“Release my people in order that they may serve me!

  • Exod 33:15-16
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    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?”

  • Num 32:20
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    20Then Moses replied,“If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

  • Num 9:8
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    8So Moses said to them,“Remain here and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”

  • Exod 19:3
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    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Josh 3:3
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    3and commanded the people:“When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here and walk behind it.

  • Num 20:17
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    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

  • Num 11:18
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    18“And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.