Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

But Moses replied to the Lord, “If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”

But Moses said, “That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the Lord our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?