But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
- KJV And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
- NKJV But Moses said, “You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
- NASB But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice them to the Lord our God.
- NLT “No,” Moses said, “you must provide us with animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to the Lord our God.
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Quick answer
Moses insists they must take animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to God. Worship requires the very animals Pharaoh would keep.
Overview
Moses refuses Pharaoh's compromise, since the livestock are needed for the sacrifices central to worship. The mention of burnt offerings highlights that proper worship of God involves atoning sacrifice. His firm stand insists that nothing essential to serving God be surrendered. The emphasis on sacrifice ultimately points to the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Lev 9:22Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.
- Exod 29:1–46“Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,
- Lev 16:9he shall present the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.
- Exod 36:1–38“So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and ability to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
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Christ at the center
The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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