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Exodus 8:21-23
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 8:21-23
New Catholic Bible
21 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go and sacrifice to your God in the land.”
22 But Moses answered, “It would not work, for the sacrifice that we are going to make to the Lord, our God, is an abomination to the Egyptians. Could we perform a sacrifice that is an abomination to the Egyptians in their sight? Would they not stone us?[a] 23 We will go into the desert, a three days’ journey, and that is where we will sacrifice to the Lord, our God, just as he has ordered us.”
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- Exodus 8:22 The Egyptians would not have endured seeing the Hebrews sacrifice animals that they, the Egyptians, regarded as sacred.