3. They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so we may sacrifice to Adonai our God, or else He may strike us with pestilence or with the sword.”
4. But the king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, make the people break loose from their work? Go to your labors!”
5. Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now so numerous, yet you would have them rest from their labors?”
6. Then on the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters of the people and their foremen saying,