3. But Aaron and Moses persisted. “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared. “So let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the lord our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”
4. Pharaoh replied, “Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their tasks? Get back to work!
5. Look, there are many of your people in the land, and you are stopping them from their work.”
6. That same day Pharaoh sent this order to the Egyptian slave drivers and the Israelite foremen:
7. “Do not supply any more straw for making bricks. Make the people get it themselves!