1. And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ”
2. And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.”
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.”
6. Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,