Exodus 5:16
They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.
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4And 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.
5And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.
6The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,
7Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.
8But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.
9Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
10And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
11Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
12So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
13And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
14And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
15Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
- Exod 5:17-215 verses85%
17But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
18Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
19Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.
20And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:
21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.
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5And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?
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11So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
14And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
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6And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:
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9And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.
10And the Lord said to Moses,
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23For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.
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15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:
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8Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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11And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?
12Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.
- Lam 5:5-62 verses70%
5Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
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5But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
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3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
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17Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?
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7And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
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3Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.