¹² He answered, “I will certainly be with you,^(A) and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship^[a] God at this mountain.”

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: Yahweh, 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 Yahweh our God.^(A)

²³ I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!”^(A)