⁴ And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your 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.

³² But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.