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and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."`
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They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, `Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days` journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.`
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I know that the king of Egypt won`t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
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I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go.