3. Then Aaron and Moses said, “The God of the Hebrews has talked with us. So we beg you to let us travel three days into the desert. There we will offer a sacrifice to the Lord our God. If we don’t do this, he might become angry and destroy us. He might make us die from sickness or war.”
4. But Pharaoh said to them, “Moses and Aaron, you are bothering the workers. Let them do their work. Go back to your own work!
5. There are very many workers, and you are keeping them from doing their jobs.”
6. That same day Pharaoh gave a command to the slave masters and Hebrew foremen.
7. He said, “You have always given the people straw to use to make bricks. But now, tell them they have to go and find their own straw to make bricks.