⁸ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, ^(A)“Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and ^(B)I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

¹⁷ Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and ^(A)plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.”

^28 (A)Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

²⁵ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.” ²⁶ But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an ^(A)abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings ^(B)abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? ²⁷ We must go ^(C)three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God ^(D)as he tells us.” ²⁸ So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. ^(E)Plead for me.”

⁶ And the king said to the man of God, ^(A)“Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

^7 (A)And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. ^(B)Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

³¹ Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, ^(A)both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. ^32 (B)Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

²⁴ And Simon answered, ^(A)“Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

⁸ So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, ^(A)“Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?” ⁹ Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for ^(B)we must hold a feast to the Lord.” ¹⁰ But he said to them, “The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your ^(C)little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.^{[a] 11} No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

⁸ The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah ^(A)had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem ^(B)to make a proclamation of liberty to them, ^9 (C)that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, ^(D)so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. ¹⁰ And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. ¹¹ But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves ^(E)they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves. ¹² The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ¹³ “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when ^(F)I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying, ^14 (G)‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; ^(H)you must set him free from your service.’ But ^(I)your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me. ¹⁵ You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes ^(J)by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and ^(K)you made a covenant before me in the ^(L)house that is called by my name, ¹⁶ but then you turned around ^(M)and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, ^(N)whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.