MOSES CONFRONTS PHARAOH

5 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”e

2 But Pharaoh responded, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?f I don’t knowA the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”g

3 They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”