Exodus 5:2

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And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they did not know the LORD.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

giving vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission to go, except by a mighty hand.

"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

But if you say, 'We will not dwell in this land'; so that you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God,