Moses changed the message that God had given him so that it had a better possibility for success - at least in his mind.<p>^Hold a feast^?   That was a Moses tweak to the WordOfGod.   It was deception.  Since Pharoah was not a fool, he read into that 2 things: -> Moses was a liar -> Moses was afraid of him.<p>Integrity and directness are qualities of our Lord.   Compromise and duplicity are ^qualities^ of Satan.