Exodus 5:3

³ And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come^* upon us; let us go, we pray^◦ thee, a way of three days into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to Jehovah our God; lest He fall··upon us with the pestilence, or with the sword.

Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.