Exodus 8:25

Good News Translation

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

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.

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.

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

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Flies

The Lord said to Moses, "Early tomorrow morning go and meet the king as he goes to the river, and tell him that the Lord says, ‘Let my people go, so that they can worship me. ²¹ I warn you that if you refuse, I will punish you by sending flies on you, your officials, and your people. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and the ground will be covered with them. ²² But I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live, so that there will be no flies there. I will do this so that you will know that I, the Lord , am at work in this land. ²³ I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This miracle will take place tomorrow.'" ²⁴ The Lord sent great swarms of flies into the king's palace and the houses of his officials. The whole land of Egypt was brought to ruin by the flies. ²⁵ Then the king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go and offer sacrifices to your God here in this country." ²⁶ "It would not be right to do that," Moses answered, "because the Egyptians would be offended by our sacrificing the animals that we offer to the Lord our God. If we use these animals and offend the Egyptians by sacrificing them where they can see us, they will stone us to death. ²⁷ We must travel three days into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, just as he commanded us." ²⁸ The king said, "I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord , your God, in the desert, if you do not go very far. Pray for me." ²⁹ Moses answered, "As soon as I leave, I will pray to the Lord that tomorrow the flies will leave you, your officials, and your people. But you must not deceive us again and prevent the people from going to sacrifice to the Lord ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.