We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He will 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.”
- KJV We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD 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.”
- 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 3:18They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’
- Exod 3:12He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
- Exod 10:26Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
- Lev 10:1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Exod 5:1Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
- Exod 34:11Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” 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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