The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
EXO 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us
go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice
unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.
EXO 5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses
and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
EXO 5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
and ye make them rest from their burdens.
EXO 5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
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