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Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should listen to[a] him and let Israel go? I don’t know about[b] the Lord, nor will I let Israel go!”

Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God so he does not strike us with pestilence or sword.”[c]

The king of Egypt replied to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you keeping the people from their labor? Go back to your work!”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:2 Or obey
  2. Exodus 5:2 The Heb. lacks about
  3. Exodus 5:3 I.e. invasions by foreign armies
  4. Exodus 5:4 Lit. burdens