Exodus 10:9
Good News Translation
Moses answered, "We will all go, including our children and our old people. We will take our sons and daughters, our sheep and goats, and our cattle, because we must hold a festival to honor the LORD."

New Revised Standard Version
Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the LORD’s festival to celebrate.”

Contemporary English Version
"Everyone, young and old," Moses answered. "We will even take our sheep, goats, and cattle, because we want to hold a celebration in honor of the LORD."

New American Bible
Moses answered, “With our young and old we must go; with our sons and daughters, with our flocks and herds we must go. It is a pilgrimage feast of the LORD for us.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.

we will go

Genesis 50:8 And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

Deuteronomy 31:12,13 And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law: . . .

Joshua 24:15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

Psalm 148:12,13 Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord: . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

our flocks

Proverbs 3:9 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine.

a feast

Exodus 3:18 And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days' journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

Exodus 5:1,3 After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrifice to me in the desert. . . .

Exodus 8:25-28 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and sacrifice to your God in this land. . . .

Exodus 13:6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.

Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.

1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. . . .

Context
The Eighth Plague: Locusts
8And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go? 9Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.10And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil?…
Cross References
Exodus 10:10
And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil?

Exodus 10:26
All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God: especially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the very place.

Exodus 12:32
Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing bless me.

Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

Exodus 10:8
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