Exodus 5:16
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.”
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- Exod 5:4-1512 verses86%
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?”
15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
- Exod 5:17-215 verses85%
17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”
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!”
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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!”
- Exod 1:11-144 verses74%
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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6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
- Exod 6:9-102 verses73%
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,
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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!”
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15how 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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8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
- Exod 14:11-122 verses71%
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!’”
- Lam 5:5-62 verses70%
5We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
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5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
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3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
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17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
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7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
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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!