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We must all join together in celebrating a festival to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/exodus/10.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/exodus/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/exodus/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we <i>must hold</i> a feast unto the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/exodus/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/exodus/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/exodus/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Moses said, &#8220We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/exodus/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/exodus/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for it is a feast of Yahweh for us.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/exodus/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds [all of us and all that we have], for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/exodus/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Moses replied, “We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the LORD’s festival.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/exodus/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Moses replied, &#8220We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds because we must hold Yahweh&#8217s festival.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/exodus/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Everyone, young and old," Moses answered. "We will even take our sheep, goats, and cattle, because we want to hold a celebration in honor of the LORD." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/exodus/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Moses answered, "Everyone! We'll be taking our young and old, our sons and daughters, our flocks and herds with us. For us it's a pilgrimage festival in the LORD's honor."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/exodus/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Moses answered, "We will all go, including our children and our old people. We will take our sons and daughters, our sheep and goats, and our cattle, because we must hold a festival to honor the LORD." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/exodus/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and our daughters, with our sheep and our cattle, because it's a festival to the LORD for us."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/exodus/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?We will go with our young and old,? Moses replied. ?We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/exodus/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the LORD." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/exodus/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/exodus/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Moses says, “With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to YHWH.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Moses saith, 'With our young ones, and with our aged ones, we go, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our flock, and our herd, we go, for we have a festival to Jehovah.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/exodus/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Moses will say, With our youths and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is to us.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/exodus/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Moses said: “We will travel with our little ones and our elderly, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds. For it is a solemnity of the Lord our God.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Moses answered, “With our young and old we must go; with our sons and daughters, with our flocks and herds we must go. It is a pilgrimage feast of the LORD for us.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the LORD’s festival to celebrate.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/exodus/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And Moses said to him, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters; with our flocks and with our herds will we go, for it is a festival of the LORD for all of us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/exodus/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Moshe said to him, “With our young and with our old, we shall go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen we will go, because it is a feast of LORD JEHOVAH for us.”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/exodus/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And Moses said: 'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/exodus/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Moses said, We will go with the young and the old, with our sons, and daughters, and sheep, and oxen, for it is a feast of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/exodus/10-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=2368" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/exodus/10.htm">The Eighth Plague: Locusts</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?” <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: nê·lêḵ (V-Qal-Imperf-1cp) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">“We will go</a> <a href="/hebrew/5288.htm" title="5288: bin·‘ā·rê·nū (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 1cp) -- A boy, lad, youth, retainer. From na'ar; a boy, from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also, a girl.">with our young</a> <a href="/hebrew/2205.htm" title="2205: ū·ḇiz·qê·nê·nū (Conj-w, Prep-b:: Adj-mpc:: 1cp) -- Old. From zaqen; old.">and old,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/4872.htm" title="4872: mō·šeh (N-proper-ms) -- A great Isr. leader, prophet and lawgiver. From mashah; drawing out, i.e. Rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver.">Moses</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">replied.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: nê·lêḵ (V-Qal-Imperf-1cp) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">“We will go</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·ḇā·nê·nū (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 1cp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">with our sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: ū·ḇiḇ·nō·w·ṯê·nū (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 1cp) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">and daughters,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6629.htm" title="6629: bə·ṣō·nê·nū (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 1cp) -- Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock. Or tsaown; from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock; also figuratively.">and with our flocks</a> <a href="/hebrew/1241.htm" title="1241: ū·ḇiḇ·qā·rê·nū (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-msc:: 1cp) -- Cattle, herd, an ox. From baqar; beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender; collectively, a herd.">and herds,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/2282.htm" title="2282: ḥaḡ- (N-msc) -- A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast. Or chag; from chagag; a festival, or a victim therefor.">we must hold a feast</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">to the LORD.”</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·nū (Prep:: 1cp) -- "></a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Exodus 5:1</a></span><br />After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/8-27.htm">Exodus 8:27</a></span><br />We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/12-31.htm">Exodus 12:31-32</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/3-18.htm">Exodus 3:18</a></span><br />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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/7-16.htm">Exodus 7:16</a></span><br />Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/4-23.htm">Exodus 4:23</a></span><br />and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/6-11.htm">Exodus 6:11</a></span><br />“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/9-1.htm">Exodus 9:1</a></span><br />Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/13-15.htm">Exodus 13:15</a></span><br />And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/14-5.htm">Exodus 14:5</a></span><br />When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/15-1.htm">Exodus 15:1</a></span><br />Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/18-12.htm">Exodus 18:12</a></span><br />Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/19-1.htm">Exodus 19:1-2</a></span><br />In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. / After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-2.htm">Exodus 20:2</a></span><br />“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-14.htm">Exodus 23:14-17</a></span><br />Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. / You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed. / You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">we will go</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/50-8.htm">Genesis 50:8</a></b></br> And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/31-12.htm">Deuteronomy 31:12,13</a></b></br> Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that <i>is</i> within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joshua/24-15.htm">Joshua 24:15</a></b></br> And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that <i>were</i> on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">our flocks</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/3-9.htm">Proverbs 3:9</a></b></br> Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:</p><p class="hdg">a feast</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/3-18.htm">Exodus 3:18</a></b></br> And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Exodus 5:1,3</a></b></br> And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/8-25.htm">Exodus 8:25-28</a></b></br> And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Celebrate</a> <a href="/exodus/6-25.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/exodus/9-3.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/exodus/9-3.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/exodus/9-2.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/exodus/10-8.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/genesis/49-26.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/12-14.htm">Celebrate</a> <a href="/exodus/21-4.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/exodus/12-14.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/exodus/10-24.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/exodus/10-24.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/exodus/12-16.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/exodus/10-11.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/exodus/13-12.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-1.htm">God threatens to send locusts</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-7.htm">Pharaoh, moved by his servants, inclines to let the Israelites go</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-12.htm">The plague of the locusts</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-16.htm">Pharaoh entreats Moses</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-21.htm">The plague of darkness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/10-24.htm">Pharaoh again entreats Moses, but yet is hardened</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It highlights the communal aspect of worship and the importance of every generation in the covenant community. The mention of both young and old underscores the collective identity of the Israelites as God's chosen people, where every member, regardless of age, is integral to the fulfillment of God's promises. This inclusivity can be seen as a precursor to the New Testament teaching that the Kingdom of God is open to all who believe, as seen in passages like <a href="/acts/2-39.htm">Acts 2:39</a>.<p><b>Moses replied.</b><br>Moses, as the leader and prophet, acts as the spokesperson for God and the Israelites. His role is pivotal in the narrative of the Exodus, serving as a mediator between God and Pharaoh. This reflects the typology of Moses as a precursor to Christ, who is the ultimate mediator between God and humanity (<a href="/1_timothy/2-5.htm">1 Timothy 2:5</a>). Moses' leadership is characterized by obedience to God's commands and a deep commitment to the liberation of his people.<p><b>We will go with our sons and daughters,</b><br>The inclusion of sons and daughters signifies the importance of family in the worship of God. It reflects the biblical principle that faith and religious practices are to be passed down through generations, as seen in <a href="/deuteronomy/6-6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:6-7</a>. This also highlights the continuity of God's covenant promises, which are intended for future generations, ensuring the perpetuation of faith and obedience to God.<p><b>and with our flocks and herds,</b><br>The mention of flocks and herds indicates the necessity of these animals for sacrificial offerings, which were central to Israelite worship. This reflects the cultural and religious practices of the time, where sacrifices were a means of atonement and communion with God. The presence of flocks and herds also signifies the economic and social aspects of the Israelites' lives, as livestock were a primary source of wealth and sustenance.<p><b>for we must hold a feast to the LORD.</b><br>This phrase underscores the purpose of the Israelites' departure: to worship and celebrate a feast to the LORD. The feast likely refers to the Passover, which commemorates God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt. This act of worship is a response to God's mighty works and a fulfillment of His command. The concept of feasting in the presence of the LORD is a recurring theme in Scripture, symbolizing fellowship, gratitude, and the acknowledgment of God's provision and salvation.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of the Israelites, chosen by God to lead His people out of Egyptian bondage. He is the spokesperson in this verse, addressing Pharaoh.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/p/pharaoh.htm">Pharaoh</a></b><br>The ruler of Egypt who is obstinate and refuses to let the Israelites go, despite the plagues that have afflicted his land.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The descendants of Jacob, also known as the children of Israel, who are enslaved in Egypt and seeking freedom to worship God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a></b><br>The land where the Israelites are enslaved, and where God is demonstrating His power through the plagues.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/feast_to_the_lord.htm">Feast to the LORD</a></b><br>A significant event that the Israelites are commanded to observe, symbolizing worship and dedication to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/i/inclusive_worship.htm">Inclusive Worship</a></b><br>Worship is a communal activity that involves all generations. The inclusion of "young and old" emphasizes the importance of family and community in spiritual practices.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a></b><br>The insistence on taking everyone and everything to worship underscores the need for complete obedience to God's instructions, without compromise.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_god's_deliverance.htm">Faith in God's Deliverance</a></b><br>Despite Pharaoh's resistance, Moses' declaration reflects faith in God's promise to deliver His people. Believers are encouraged to trust in God's plans even when facing opposition.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/holistic_commitment.htm">Holistic Commitment</a></b><br>The mention of taking "flocks and herds" signifies a holistic commitment to God, involving all aspects of life and resources in worship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/celebration_of_god's_faithfulness.htm">Celebration of God's Faithfulness</a></b><br>The feast represents a celebration of God's faithfulness and provision, reminding believers to regularly commemorate and give thanks for God's blessings.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_moses_threaten_pharaoh_repeatedly.htm">Why does Moses repeatedly request permission for worship yet continue threatening Pharaoh (Exodus 10:9–11) if God had already determined Pharaoh’s heart would be hardened?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_moses'_name_hebrew,_not_egyptian.htm">Why does Moses' Egyptian name ('drawn out') suggest a later Hebrew etymology rather than an authentic Egyptian origin?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'wicked_heart'_mean_in_jer_17_9.htm">Did Moses father any children?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_2_chron_5_10_differ_from_heb_9_4.htm">2 Chronicles 5:10 - Why does this verse say only the tablets were in the Ark when Hebrews 9:4 mentions additional items, creating a seeming contradiction?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">With our sons and with our daughters . . . for we must hold a feast.</span>--It was customary in Egypt for children to join in festivals (Herod. ii. 60).<p><span class= "bld">With our flocks and with our herds.</span>--The family of Jacob brought numerous flocks and herds into Egypt (<a href="/genesis/47-1.htm" title="Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.">Genesis 47:1</a>). These had, no doubt, increased, notwithstanding the oppression, and at the time of the Exodus must have been very numerous. The requirement to "take a lamb for an house" (<a href="/exodus/12-2.htm" title="This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.">Exodus 12:2</a>) on the institution of the Passover involved the killing, on a single day, of 200,000 lambs. Even after this the flocks and herds which went out with them (<a href="/exodus/12-38.htm" title="And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.">Exodus 12:38</a>) were "very much cattle."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Moses said, We will go with our young, and with our old</span>. This statement was at any rate unambiguous, and no doubt could henceforth be even pretended as to what the demand was. The whole nation, with its flocks and herds, was to take its departure, since a feast was to be held in which all the nation ought to participate. The Egyptians were accustomed to the attendance of children at national festivals (Herod. 2:60). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/exodus/10-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“We will go</span><br /><span class="heb">נֵלֵ֑ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(nê·lêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, come, walk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with our young</span><br /><span class="heb">בִּנְעָרֵ֥ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(bin·‘ā·rê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5288.htm">Strong's 5288: </a> </span><span class="str2">A boy, lad, youth, retainer</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and old,”</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבִזְקֵנֵ֖ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇiz·qê·nê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2205.htm">Strong's 2205: </a> </span><span class="str2">Old</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Moses</span><br /><span class="heb">מֹשֶׁ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(mō·šeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4872.htm">Strong's 4872: </a> </span><span class="str2">Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver</span><br /><br /><span class="word">replied.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֣אמֶר</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·mer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“We will go</span><br /><span class="heb">נֵלֵ֔ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(nê·lêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, come, walk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with our sons</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּבָנֵ֨ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḇā·nê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and daughters,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבִבְנוֹתֵ֜נוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇiḇ·nō·w·ṯê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and with our flocks</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּצֹאנֵ֤נוּ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṣō·nê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6629.htm">Strong's 6629: </a> </span><span class="str2">Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and herds,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבִבְקָרֵ֙נוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇiḇ·qā·rê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1241.htm">Strong's 1241: </a> </span><span class="str2">Beef cattle, ox, a herd</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[we must hold] a feast</span><br /><span class="heb">חַג־</span> <span class="translit">(ḥaḡ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2282.htm">Strong's 2282: </a> </span><span class="str2">A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the LORD.”</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/exodus/10-9.htm">Exodus 10:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/exodus/10-9.htm">OT Law: Exodus 10:9 Moses said We will go with our (Exo. 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