We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
Parallel translations
- WEB We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
- KJV We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
- ESV We must go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he tells us.”
- NKJV We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He will command us.”
- NASB We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as He commands us.”
- NLT We must take a three-day trip into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, just as he has commanded us.”
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Quick answer
Moses insists on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice as God commands. Obedience must follow God's instruction, not human compromise.
Overview
Moses holds firm to God's directive that Israel go into the wilderness to worship, refusing Pharaoh's restricted offer. The phrase 'as he shall command us' keeps the focus on full obedience to God's revealed will. This steadfastness models faithfulness that will not bargain away God's commands, pointing to the obedience God desires from His people, ultimately rendered perfectly by Christ.
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Cross-references · 7
- Exod 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 wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
- Exod 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.”
- Exod 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.”
- Lev 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.
- Exod 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.’”
- Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Matt 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.”
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