Exodus 5:5 BBE

³  And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

⁴  And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

⁵  And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

⁶  The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,

⁷  Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.