¹⁸ They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.^(A)

³⁰ But Moses replied in the Lord’s presence, “Since I am such a poor speaker,^[a](A) how will Pharaoh listen to me?”