Exodus 5:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

Moses Confronts Pharaoh

5 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”^(A)

² But Pharaoh responded, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?^(B) I don’t know^[a] the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”^(C)

³ They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”