We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Parallel translations
- WEB We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
- BSB We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands 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 3:18And 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.
- Exod 3:12And 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.
- Exod 10:26Our 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.
- Lev 10:1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
- Exod 5:1And 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.
- Exod 34:11Observe 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.
- Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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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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