Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

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.”