16 And you must say to him, ‘Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you,+ saying: “Send my people away that they may serve* me in the wilderness,”+ but here you have not obeyed until now.

27 We shall go a journey of three days into the wilderness and we shall definitely sacrifice to Jehovah our God just as he has said to us.”+

26 And our livestock will also go with us.+ Not a hoof will be allowed to remain, because it is from them that we shall take some to worship* Jehovah our God,+ and we ourselves do not know what we shall render in worship to Jehovah until our arriving there.”+