Exodus 8:25

Revised Standard Version

Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Par`oh called for Moshe and for Aharon, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"

King James Version
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Lexham English Bible
And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and he said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."

New Century Version
The king called for Moses and Aaron and told them, "Offer sacrifices to your God here in this country."

New English Translation
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Amplified Bible
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God [here] in the land [of Egypt]."

New American Standard Bible
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and saide, Goe, doe sacrifice vnto your God in this lande.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Contemporary English Version
Then the king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, "Go sacrifice to your God, but stay here in Egypt."

Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe said, "All right, I am going away from you, and I will intercede with Adonai ; so that tomorrow, the swarms of insects will leave Pharaoh, his servants and his people. Just make sure that Pharaoh stops playing games with the people by preventing them from going and sacrificing to Adonai ."

Darby Translation
And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and told them, "Offer sacrifices to your God here in this country."

English Standard Version
Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

George Lamsa Translation
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said to them, Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.

Good News Translation
Then the king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go and offer sacrifices to your God here in this country."

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”

Literal Translation
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go! Sacrifice to your God in the land.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The called Pharao for Moses & Aaron, & sayde: Go yor waye, & do sacrifice vnto yor God in ye londe.

American Standard Version
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Bible in Basic English
And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron, and sayd: Go, and do sacrifice vnto your God in this lande.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.'

King James Version (1611)
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Goe yee, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, saying, Go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the land.

English Revised Version
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within this land."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Farao clepide Moises and Aaron, and seide to hem, Go ye, make ye sacrifice to `youre Lord God in this lond.

Young's Literal Translation
And Pharaoh calleth unto Moses and to Aaron, and saith, `Go, sacrifice to your God in the land;'

Update Bible Version
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Pharaoh called for Moses, and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

World English Bible
Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"

New King James Version
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."

New Living Translation
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron. "All right! Go ahead and offer sacrifices to your God," he said. "But do it here in this land."

New Life Bible
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go and give a gift in worship to your God here in the land."

New Revised Standard
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did Pharaoh cry out - unto Moses and to Aaron, - and said-Go your way, sacrifice to your God, in the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and sacrifice to your God in this land.

THE MESSAGE
Pharaoh called in Moses and Aaron and said, "Go ahead. Sacrifice to your God—but do it here in this country."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and wait for Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me. ²¹ Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand. ²² But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. ²³ Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign be."'" ²⁴ And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies. ²⁵ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land." ²⁶ But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God offerings abominable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? ²⁷ We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he will command us." ²⁸ So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me." ²⁹ Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 8:8, Exodus 9:27, Exodus 10:16, Exodus 12:31, Revelation 3:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - that we may Exodus 10:9 - a feast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron,.... He and his people not being able to endure this plague of flies any longer; and we read in profane history of such creatures being so troublesome, that people have been obliged to quit their habitations, and seek for new ones; so Pausanias t relates of the inhabitants of Myus, that such a number of flies rose out of the lake, that the men were obliged to leave the city, and go to Miletus; so Aelian u reports, that the inhabitants of Megara were driven from thence by a multitude of flies, as were the inhabitants of Phaselis by wasps, which creatures also might be in this mixture of insects:

and said, go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land; that is, in the land of Goshen, in the place where they were; he was willing to allow them the liberty of sacrificing to their God, which it seems they had before; but then he would not consent they should go out of the land to do it.

t Achaica, sive l. 7. p. 400. u De Animal. l. 11. c. 28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To your God - Pharaoh now admits the existence and power of the God whom he had professed not to know; but, as Moses is careful to record, he recognizes Him only as the national Deity of the Israelites.

In the land - i. e. in Egypt, not beyond the frontier.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 8:25. Sacrifice to your God in the land. — That is, Ye shall not leave Egypt, but I shall cause your worship to be tolerated here.