Exodus 8:27

27 We will go a journey of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God according to what he says to us."

Exodus 8:27 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 8:27

We will go three days' journey into the wilderness
As was first insisted on, and from which demand they should not depart:

and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, as he shall command us;
both what sacrifices shall be offered, and the manner in which they shall be done, both which seemed for the present in a good measure undetermined and unknown; and therefore it was possible, and very probable, that in one or the other they should give offence to the Egyptians, should they sacrifice among them, being at all events resolved to do as the Lord should command them.

Exodus 8:27 In-Context

25 And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and he said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."

26 And Moses said, "To do so [is] not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, [if] we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?

27 We will go a journey of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God according to what he says to us."

28 And Pharaoh said, "I myself will release you, and you will sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert. Only surely you must not go far. Pray for me."

29 And Moses said, "Look, I [am] going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive [us] by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh."