Exodus 5:3-5

Darby Translation

³ And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with sword.

⁴ And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, wish to have the people go off from their works? Away, to your burdens!

⁵ And Pharaoh said, Behold the people of the land are now many, and ye wish to make them rest from their burdens.