¹⁸ They will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; let us now go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’^(A)

³⁰ But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I am a poor speaker,^[a] why should Pharaoh listen to me?”^(A)