⁵ And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord^(A) when I stretch out my hand^(B) against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”

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)

³ They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift;^(A) by all means send a guilt offering^(B) to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand^(C) has not been lifted from you.”

⁹ but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,^(A) then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

²⁰ But if I drive out demons by the finger of God,^(A) then the kingdom of God^(B) has come upon you.