Exodus 5:13
The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”
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14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”
15 The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
16 No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”
17 But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”
18 So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”
20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
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4 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!”
5 Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”
6 That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:
7 “You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.
8 But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’
9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
10 So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.
11 You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”
12 So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
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11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
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33 The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”
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6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
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5 When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”
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15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
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14 In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.