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The Fourth Plague: Flies

Exodus 8:27

In 11 translations

BSB
We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
KJV
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
WEB
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
ASV
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.
LSV
We go a journey of three days into the wilderness and have sacrificed to our God YHWH as He says to us.”
YLT
A journey of three days we go into the wilderness, and have sacrificed to Jehovah our God, as He saith unto us.'
DBY
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.Elohim
DRC
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness: and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
GNV
Let vs go three dayes iourney in the desert, and sacrifice vnto the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs.
JPS8:23
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.'
LXXE8:23
We will go a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as the Lord said to us.

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Original-language editions

WLC8:23
דֶּ֚רֶךְ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת יָמִ֔ים נֵלֵ֖ךְ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְזָבַ֨חְנוּ֙ לַֽיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר יֹאמַ֥ר אֵלֵֽינוּ׃KJV:Exod.8.27
LXX-Br8:23
Ὁδὸν τριῶν ἡμερῶν πορευσόμεθα εἰς τὴν ἔρημον· καὶ θύσομεν τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν, καθάπερ εἶπεν Κύριος ἡμῖν.

Who and where

👤 God◆ Exodus from Egypt

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the…
  • 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 worship God on this mountain.”
  • Exodus 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Exodus 10:26Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”
  • 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 the wilderness.’”
  • 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.
  • Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 8:23 in some Bibles
  • 8:27 in most Bibles

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