⁵ And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

¹⁸ And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to The Lord our God.

¹² I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."