Exodus 5:1-5

1Later, 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.”

2But 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.”

3They 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.”

4The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor!”

5Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from their labor.”