Exodus 8:27 KJV

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

Matthew Henry

  • The plague of fliesPharaoh was early at his false devotions to the river; and shall we be for more sleep and more slumber, when any service to the Lord is to be done? The...

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Exodus 3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
  • Exodus 3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
  • Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
  • Exodus 10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
  • Exodus 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Topics

  • Animals Instruments of God’s will
  • Egyptians Refuse to release the Israelites
  • Falsehood Pharaoh, in dealing deceitfully with the Israelites
  • Flies Plague of
  • Moses Under divine direction brings plagues upon the land of Egypt

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Bible Dictionary

  • LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Strong’s Numbers

  • We will go יָלַךְ yâlak
  • three שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôwsh
  • days' יוֹם yôwm
  • journey דֶּרֶךְ derek
  • into the wilderness מִדְבָּר midbâr
  • and sacrifice זָבַח zâbach
  • to the LORD יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh
  • our God אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
  • as he shall command אָמַר ʼâmar

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