NET Bible
"The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”"
— Exodus 5:4, NET Bible
“And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.”
“And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. ”
“The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"”
Opposition to the Plan of God Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said,‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the wilderness.’”
But Pharaoh said,“Who is the LORD that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will not release Israel!”
And they said,“The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.”
The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”
Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”
That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:
“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.