Exodus 10:25
New International Version
But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

New Living Translation
“No,” Moses said, “you must provide us with animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to the LORD our God.

English Standard Version
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Berean Standard Bible
But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

King James Bible
And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

New King James Version
But Moses said, “You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

New American Standard Bible
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.

NASB 1995
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.

NASB 1977
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.

Legacy Standard Bible
But Moses said, “You must also let us have in our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to Yahweh our God.

Amplified Bible
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our God.

Christian Standard Bible
Moses responded, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for the LORD our God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Moses responded, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for Yahweh our God.

American Standard Version
And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God.

Contemporary English Version
"No!" Moses replied. "You must let us offer sacrifices to the LORD our God,

English Revised Version
And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But Moses said, "You must allow us to take [our animals] for the sacrifices and burnt offerings we have to make to the LORD our God.

Good News Translation
Moses answered, "Then you would have to provide us with animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings to offer to the LORD our God.

International Standard Version
Moses said, "You must let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to offer to the LORD our God.

Majority Standard Bible
But Moses replied, ?You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

NET Bible
But Moses said, "Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?

New Heart English Bible
Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices, and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

World English Bible
Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and Moses says, “You also give sacrifices and burnt-offerings in our hand, and we have prepared for our God YHWH;

Young's Literal Translation
and Moses saith, 'Thou also dost give in our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, and we have prepared for Jehovah our God;

Smith's Literal Translation
And Moses will say, Thou also shalt give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, and we sacrificed to Jehovah our God.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, to the Lord our God.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Moses said: “You must also permit us victims and holocausts, which we may offer to the Lord our God.

New American Bible
But Moses replied, “You also must give us sacrifices and burnt offerings to make to the LORD, our God.

New Revised Standard Version
But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Then Moses said to Pharaoh. You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Moshe said to him: “Also you shall give into our hand sacrifices and offerings and we will sacrifice to LORD JEHOVAH our God.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses said, Nay, but thou shalt give to us whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices, which we will sacrifice to the Lord our God.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.” 25But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God. 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.”…

Cross References
Exodus 3:18
The 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.’

Exodus 5:3
“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

Exodus 8:25-27
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.” / But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us? / We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”

Exodus 12:31-32
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. / Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

Exodus 34:20
You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

Leviticus 9:3
Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,

Numbers 23:1
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

Deuteronomy 12:5-6
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. / To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

1 Kings 8:63
And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:21-24
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD. / So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splattered it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and splattered the blood on the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs and splattered the blood on the altar. / Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them. ...

Psalm 51:16-17
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Isaiah 1:11
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Jeremiah 7:22-23
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, / but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.


Treasury of Scripture

And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

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Exodus 29:1
And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

Exodus 36:1
Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.

Exodus 37:1
And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

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Exodus 10
1. God threatens to send locusts
7. Pharaoh, moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go
12. The plague of the locusts
16. Pharaoh entreats Moses
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But Moses replied
This phrase indicates a response, suggesting a dialogue or negotiation. Moses, as the leader and prophet, is speaking with authority and conviction. The Hebrew root for "replied" (עָנָה, 'anah) often implies a thoughtful or deliberate response, highlighting Moses' role as a mediator between God and Pharaoh. Historically, Moses' replies are not just personal opinions but divinely inspired directives, emphasizing his prophetic role.

You must also provide us
The phrase underscores a demand or requirement. The Hebrew word for "provide" (נָתַן, natan) means to give or deliver. This reflects the Israelites' dependence on God's provision and Pharaoh's obligation to comply with God's will. In the historical context, this demand challenges Pharaoh's authority, asserting that the Israelites' worship needs are non-negotiable and divinely mandated.

with sacrifices and burnt offerings
Sacrifices (זֶבַח, zevach) and burnt offerings (עוֹלָה, olah) are central to Israelite worship, symbolizing atonement and dedication to God. The sacrificial system, deeply rooted in the covenantal relationship between God and Israel, required specific offerings to maintain holiness and fellowship with God. Archaeological findings, such as altars and sacrificial remains, corroborate the importance of these practices in ancient Near Eastern cultures.

to present to the LORD our God
This phrase emphasizes the purpose of the sacrifices: to honor and worship Yahweh, the covenant God of Israel. The Hebrew word for "present" (עָשָׂה, asah) implies an act of worship or service. The use of "LORD" (יהוה, YHWH) signifies the personal name of God, highlighting the intimate and exclusive relationship between God and His people. The phrase "our God" reinforces the communal identity of the Israelites as God's chosen people, bound by covenant to worship Him alone.

Verses 25, 26. - Moses absolutely refuses the suggested compromise. He had already declared on a former occasion, "With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go" (ver. 9). He is not inclined to retract now, after two additional plagues, what he had demanded before them. He does not refuse, however, to set forth his reasons. The cattle must go because the feast which they are about to keep requires sacrifices- they must all go, because the Israelites do not as yet know what animals, or how many of each, will be required of them. The feast was a new thing, without precedent; its ritual was not yet laid down. No exact directions were to be expected, until the place was reached where God intended that it should be celebrated.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

replied,
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“You
אַתָּ֛ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

must also
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

provide
תִּתֵּ֥ן (tit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

us with
בְּיָדֵ֖נוּ (bə·yā·ḏê·nū)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 3027: A hand

sacrifices
זְבָחִ֣ים (zə·ḇā·ḥîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

and burnt offerings
וְעֹל֑וֹת (wə·‘ō·lō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

to present
וְעָשִׂ֖ינוּ (wə·‘ā·śî·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to the LORD
לַיהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

our God.
אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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