Moses Speaks to the King
Scriptures | Exodus 5 |
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Exodus Chapter 51 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, āThus says the LORD, the God of Israel, āLet my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.ā ā2 But Pharaoh said, āWho is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.ā3 Then they said, āThe God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three daysā journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.ā4 But the king of Egypt said to them, āMoses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.ā5 And Pharaoh said, āBehold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!ā6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,7 āYou shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, āLet us go and offer sacrifice to our God.ā9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.ā10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, āThus says Pharaoh, āI will not give you straw.11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.ā ā12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, āComplete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.ā14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaohās taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, āWhy have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?ā15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, āWhy do you treat your servants like this?16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, āMake bricks!āAnd behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.ā17 But he said, āYou are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, āLet us go and sacrifice to the LORD.ā18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.ā19 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, āYou shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.ā20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;21 and they said to them, āThe LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.ā22 Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, āO Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.ā |
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