²³ So I said to you, ‘^(A)Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(B)I will kill your son, your 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.’”

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