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Exodus 5:4

“But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!””

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²But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

³“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

⁴But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”

⁵Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

⁶That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

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