Exodus 5:1-5
International Standard Version
Pharaoh Refuses to Let the People Go
5 After Moses and Aaron arrived, they told Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Let my people go so they may make a pilgrimage for me in the desert.’”
2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should listen to[a] him and let Israel go? I don’t know about[b] the Lord, nor will I let Israel go!”
3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God so he does not strike us with pestilence or sword.”[c]
4 The king of Egypt replied to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you keeping the people from their labor? Go back to your work!”[d] 5 Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people in the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.”[e]
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- Exodus 5:2 Or obey
- Exodus 5:2 The Heb. lacks about
- Exodus 5:3 I.e. invasions by foreign armies
- Exodus 5:4 Lit. burdens
- Exodus 5:5 Lit. from their burdens
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