2. But Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
3. And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.
4. The king of Egypt said to Moses and Aaron, Why do you take the people from their jobs? Get to your burdens!
5. Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens!
6. The very same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers,
7. You shall no more give the people straw to make brick; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8. But the number of the bricks which they made before you shall still require of them; you shall not diminish it in the least. For they are idle; that is why they cry, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.