And they shall hearken to your voice: and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and you shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us: and now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Called. Samaritan and Septuagint, "hath been invoked upon us. "Hebrew, "hath occurred or appeared to us. "(Haydock)
Journey, to Sinai, which was about this distance, to go straight. But the Israelites spent 48 days in arriving at it by a circuitous road. (Calmet)
In Hebrew they ask, "Let us go, we beseech thee. "They do not tell a lie, but withhold the truth. (Menochius)