Exodus 5:1-9

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”  But Pharaoh responded, “Who is the LORD that I should obey him by letting Israel go?  I don’t know  the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”  They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.” The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ” Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from their labor.”  That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers  of the people as well as their foremen, “Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves. But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers #— #that is why they are crying out,  ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words.”

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