Exodus 5:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Pharaoh answered, “Who is the Lord that I should listen to his voice and let Israel leave? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel leave.” ³ They said, “The God of the Hebrews has appeared to us. Let us leave for a journey of three days into the desert to celebrate a sacrifice to the Lord, our God, lest he punish us with plague or the sword.”

⁴ The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people away from their work? Return to your work.”