11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced ( O) at all.’” 12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. ( K) They are lazy ( L) that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ ( M) 9 Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”ġ0 Then the slave drivers ( N) and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw. 8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before don’t reduce the quota. Now let us take a three-day journey ( E) into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues ( F) or with the sword.”Ĥ But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? ( G) Get back to your work!” 5 Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, ( H) and you are stopping them from working.”Ħ That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers ( I) and overseers in charge of the people: 7 “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks ( J) let them go and gather their own straw. 5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, ( A) so that they may hold a festival ( B) to me in the wilderness.’”Ģ Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, ( C) that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.” ( D)ģ Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us.

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