¹⁸ They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.^(A)

³⁰ But Moses replied in the Lord’s presence, ‘Since I am such a poor speaker,^(A) how will Pharaoh listen to me? ’