Exodus 8:28
Good News Translation
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."

New Revised Standard Version
So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, provided you do not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Contemporary English Version
Then the king told him, "I'll let you go into the desert to offer sacrifices, if you don't go very far. But in the meantime, pray for me."

New American Bible
Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD, your God, in the wilderness, provided that you do not go too far away. Pray for me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.

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Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

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Exodus 8:8,29 But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. . . .

Exodus 9:28 Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.

Exodus 10:17 But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.

1 Kings 13:6 And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

Ezra 6:10 And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Acts 8:24 Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord that none of these things which you have spoken may come upon me.

Context
The Fourth Plague: Flies
27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness; and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us. 28And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.29And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.…
Cross References
Exodus 8:8
But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 8:15
And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.

Exodus 9:28
Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.

Exodus 10:17
But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.

1 Kings 13:6
And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

Jeremiah 42:2
And they said to Jeremiah the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.

Exodus 8:27
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