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Then Moses ad Aaro wet and told Pharao, thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel. Let my people goo, that they may kepe holye daye vnto me in the wildernesse.
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And Pharao answered: what felowe is the Lord, that I shulde heare his voyce for to let Israel goo?
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I knowe not the Lorde, nether will let Israel goo.And they sayde: the God of the Ebrues hath mett with vs: let vs goo (we praye the) iij. dayes iourney in to the deserte, that we maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde oure God: lest he smyte vs ether with pestilence or with swerde.
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Then sayde the kinge of Egipte vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people fro their worke, gett you vnto youre laboure.
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And Pharao sayde further more: beholde, there is moch people in the londe, and ye make them playe and let their worke stonde.
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And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskemasters ouer the people and vnto the officers saynge:
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se that ye geue the people no moare strawe to make brycke with all as ye dyd in tyme passed: let them goo and gather them strawe them selues,