Exodus 3:18

New American Bible - revised edition

They will listen to you. Then you and the elders of Israel will go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to meet us. So now, let us go a three days’ journey in the wilderness to offer sacrifice to the Lord, our God.

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.

Genesis 14:13

A survivor came and brought the news to Abram the Hebrew, who was camping at the oak of Mamre the Amorite, a kinsman of Eshcol and Aner; these were allies of Abram.

Genesis 15:1

Some time afterward, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not fear, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.

Genesis 48:3

Jacob then said to Joseph: “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessing me,

2 Chronicles 30:12

In Judah, however, the hand of God brought it about that the people were of one heart to carry out the command of the king and the princes by the word of the Lord.

Psalm 110:3

Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like dew I begot you.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

Exodus 17:5

The Lord answered Moses: Go on ahead of the people, and take along with you some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the Nile.

Exodus 19:1

In the third month after the Israelites’ departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 25:22

There I will meet you and there, from above the cover, between the two cherubim on the ark of the covenant, I will tell you all that I command you regarding the Israelites. The Table.

Exodus 3:12

God answered: I will be with you; and this will be your sign that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God at this mountain.

Exodus 3:16

Go and gather the elders of the Israelites, and tell them, The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have observed you and what is being done to you in Egypt;

Exodus 30:36

Grind some of it into fine dust and put this before the covenant in the tent of meeting where I will meet you. This incense shall be treated as most sacred by you.

Exodus 30:6

This altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the covenant where I will meet you.

Exodus 4:1

“But,” objected Moses, “suppose they do not believe me or listen to me? For they may say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’”

Exodus 4:23

I said to you: Let my son go, that he may serve me. Since you refused to let him go, I will kill your son, your firstborn.

Exodus 4:24

On the journey, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord came upon Moses and sought to put him to death.

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had observed the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they knelt and bowed down.

Exodus 5:1

Afterwards, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may hold a feast for me in the wilderness.”

Exodus 5:3

They replied, “The God of the Hebrews has come to meet us. Let us go a three days’ journey in the wilderness, that we may offer sacrifice to the Lord, our God, so that he does not strike us with the plague or the sword.”

Exodus 7:16

Say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you with the message: Let my people go to serve me in the wilderness. But as yet you have not listened.

Exodus 8:1

The Lord then spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams, the canals, and the ponds, and make frogs overrun the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:20

This the Lord did. Thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants; throughout Egypt the land was devastated on account of the swarms of flies.

Exodus 8:23

We must go a three days’ journey in the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord, our God, as he commands us.”

Exodus 9:1

Then the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and tell him: Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to serve me.

Exodus 9:13

Then the Lord spoke to Moses: Early tomorrow morning present yourself to Pharaoh and say to him: Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to serve me,

Isaiah 64:5

We have all become like something unclean, all our just deeds are like polluted rags; We have all withered like leaves, and our crimes carry us away like the wind.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?”

Jeremiah 26:5

and listening to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I kept sending you, even though you do not listen to them,

Numbers 17:4

So taking the bronze censers which had been presented by those who were burned, Eleazar the priest had them hammered into a covering for the altar,

Joshua 1:17

As completely as we obeyed Moses, we will obey you. Only, may the Lord, your God, be with you as God was with Moses.