Exodus 8:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

not go very far away. Pharaoh's objection to Jehovah's third demand (Exodus 8:25). Note the spiritual lesson as to our worship to-day. See note on Exo 5:28

from. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and from".

The fifth plague was aimed at all kinds of animal worship. Compare Exodus 12:12.

Exodus 8:28

28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.