³ Then they said, “The ^(A)God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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

¹⁶ Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem ^(A)shall go up year after year to worship ^(B)the King, the Lord of hosts, and ^(C)to keep ^(D)the Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And if ^(E)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^(F)the King, the Lord of hosts, ^(G)there will be no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain;^[a] there shall be ^(H)the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^(I)to keep the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up ^(J)to keep the Feast of Booths.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“Clap your hands ^(B)and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, ^(C)for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

²³ Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.

^8 (A)Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, ^(B)that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

²⁵ And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

²¹ The Lord will make ^(A)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.