¹⁵ I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews,^(A) and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”^(B)

¹⁸ “The elders of Israel will listen^(A) to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,^(B) has met^(C) with us. Let us take a three-day journey^(D) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices^(E) to the Lord our God.’