Exodus 8:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go and sacrifice to your God in the land.”

²² But Moses answered, “It would not work, for the sacrifice that we are going to make to the Lord, our God, is an abomination to the Egyptians. Could we perform a sacrifice that is an abomination to the Egyptians in their sight? Would they not stone us?^{[a] 23} We will go into the desert, a three days’ journey, and that is where we will sacrifice to the Lord, our God, just as he has ordered us.”