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Exodus 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has revealed himself to us; let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord our God, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or sword.”(A) 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Get to your labors!”(B) 5 Pharaoh continued, “Now they are more numerous than the people of the land[a] and yet you want them to stop laboring!”(C)
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- 5.5 Sam: MT The people of the land are now many
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