Exodus 5:3-5

Modern English Version

³ They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray you, three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

⁴ But the king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” ⁵ Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land now are numerous, and you make them rest from their labor.”