1. After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.”
2. “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the lord, and I will not let Israel go.”