25 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, do sacrifice unto your God in this land.

26 And Moses answered, It is not meet to do so: for then we should offer unto the Lord our God that, which is an [a]abomination unto the Egyptians. Lo, can we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and they not stone us?

27 Let us go three days’ journey in the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, (A)as he hath commanded us.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 8:26 For the Egyptians worshipped divers beasts, as the ox, the sheep and such like which the Israelites offered in sacrifice, which thing the Egyptians abhorred to see.

25 Then Pharaoh summoned(A) Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”

26 But Moses said, “That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the Lord our God would be detestable to the Egyptians.(B) And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us? 27 We must take a three-day journey(C) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices(D) to the Lord our God, as he commands us.”

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