Exodus 5:15

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The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

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  • Exod 5:4-14
    11 verses
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    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

    5Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

    6That 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.

    8But 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.’

    9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

    10So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.

    11You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

    12So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

    13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

    14The 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?”

  • 16No 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.”

  • Exod 5:18-23
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    18So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

    19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

    20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

    22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

    23From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

  • 5When 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!”

  • 15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • Exod 1:11-14
    4 verses
    76%

    11So 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.

    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

    14They 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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    10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

  • Exod 6:9-10
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    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • 9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

  • 6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

  • 15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

  • 13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • 31Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said,“Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the LORD as you have requested!

  • 18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

  • 7Pharaoh’s servants said to him,“How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”

  • 6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

  • 3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

  • 20The Fourth Blow: Flies The LORD said to Moses,“Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Release my people that they may serve me!