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Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of athe elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which byou struck the Nile, and go.
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Exodus 3:16, Exodus 3:18
Exodus 3
16
"Go and agather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'bThe Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "cI am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
Exodus 3
18
"aThey will pay heed to what you say; and byou with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a cthree days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'