8 ^1 [a]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship^(A) me.

⁷ Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare^(A) to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”^(B)

²⁶ Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the Lord.”