When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

“If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

And they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the desert so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.”