They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

Then they answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword.”

We must go a distance of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He instructs us.”

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.