Laban Pursues Jacob

²² On the third day^(A) Laban was told that Jacob had fled.^(B)

¹⁸ “The elders of Israel will listen^(A) to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^(B) has met^(C) with us. Let us take a three-day journey^(D) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(E) to the Lord our God.’

³ Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey^(A) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues^(B) or with the sword.”

²⁷ We must take a three-day journey^(A) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(B) to the Lord our God, as he commands us.”