Exodus 5:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They answered, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.’

Cross References

Exodus 3:18

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: The Lord, 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 the Lord our God.

Ezekiel 6:11

‘This is what the Lord God says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet,  and cry out over all the evil and detestable practices of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, famine, and plague.

Ezra 7:23

Whatever is commanded by the God of the heavens must be done diligently for the house of the God of the heavens, so that wrath will not fall on the realm of the king and his sons.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Don’t become obstinate  , now as your ancestors did. Give your allegiance  to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated for ever. Serve the Lord your God so that he may turn his burning anger away from you,

2 Kings 17:25

When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Deuteronomy 28:21

The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.

Exodus 7:16

Tell him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship  me in the wilderness. But so far you have not listened.

Exodus 8:1

Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go in to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

Exodus 8:20

The Lord said to Moses, ‘Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship  me.

Exodus 8:27

We must go a distance of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he instructs us.’

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring a sword against you  to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.