Exodus 5:5 YLT

³  And they say, 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us, let us go, we pray thee, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we sacrifice to Jehovah our God, lest He meet us with pestilence or with sword.'

⁴  And the king of Egypt saith unto them, 'Why, Moses and Aaron, do ye free the people from its works? go to your burdens.'

⁵  Pharaoh also saith, 'Lo, numerous now 'is' the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

⁶  And Pharaoh commandeth, on that day, the exactors among the people and its authorities, saying,

⁷  'Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves;