Exodus 8:28 “Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your Go…”

Exodus 8:28

Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

World English Bible

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

American Standard Version

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice vnto the Lord your God in the wildernesse: but goe not farre away, pray for me.

Darby Translation

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only, go not very far away: intreat for me!

Young's Literal Translation

And Pharaoh saith, 'I send you away, and ye have sacrificed to Jehovah your God in the wilderness, only go not very far off; make ye supplication for me;'

Bible in Basic English

Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.

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Cross references

“I will”

Hosea 10:2

Hosea 10:2 · BSB

Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

“intreat”

Exodus 8:8 Exodus 9:28 1 Kings 13:6 Acts 8:24 Exodus 8:29 Exodus 10:17

Exodus 8:8 · BSB

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

Exodus 9:28 · BSB

Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

1 Kings 13:6 · BSB

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was be…

Acts 8:24 · BSB

Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Exodus 8:29 · BSB

“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to le…

Exodus 10:17 · BSB

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”

29“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

Read Exodus 8