¹³ Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ And they will say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”

^18 (A)And they will listen to your voice; and ^(B)you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt, and you all will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a ^(C)three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.’

²² Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(A)Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Pharaoh Will Not Let the People Go

5 And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “^(A)Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘^(B)Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”