King James Version
Exodus 8:27 in the King James Version says “We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.”
Exodus 8:27 · KJV
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
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.
And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“journey”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“into the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
“to the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“our God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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