Pharaoh Won’t Let the Hebrews Go When Moses & Aaron Ask Him |
Exodus 5:1-23 The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus |
Afterward, Moses & Aaron went in & told Pharaoh, The Lord God of Israel says [this,]: Let My people go, [so] that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness. Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. |
[So,] they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. We pray [that] you, let us go on a 3 [day] journey into the desert & sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall on us with pestilence or with the sword. |
The king of Egypt [asked,] Why do you, Moses & Aaron, [take] the people from their [work?] Get back to your [jobs.] And Pharaoh said [to the taskmasters,] [Look, the people of the land are now many & you let them rest from their [jobs.] |
Pharaoh commanded the task masters & their officers the same day, saying, You shall no [longer] give the people the straw [needed] to make the brick [as in the past.] Let them now go & gather the straw for themselves & they [will still have the same [quota] of bricks [that they had before] & you shall not [reduce it.] They [are] idle, therefore they cry, saying, Let us go & sacrifice to our God. |
Let them have [even more work] laid on the men, [so] they may [do that work.] [Don't let them pay attention to false] words. The taskmasters & their officers [spoke] to the people, saying, Pharaoh says [this,] I will not give you straw. You go & find it where you can. [Still,] your world shall not [be reduced any.] |
So, the people were scattered [around] throughout the land of Egypt [gathering] stubble instead of straw. The taskmasters forced them to hurry & fulfill their [daily quota] as when there was straw. |
Pharaoh had [put] taskmasters over the officers of the children [people] of Israel, were beaten, [demanding, Why] haven't you fulfilled your [tasks' quota] in making [bricks] both today & yesterday, [the same as you did in the past?] The officers of the children of Israel cried out to Pharaoh [asking,] Why are you [treating us,] your servants [like this?] |
No straw is given to your servants & they say to us, Make bricks & [look,] your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people. [Pharaoh] said, You are [too] idle, [that's why you ask,] Let us go & sacrifice to the Lord. Go back] & work & no straw shall be given you. |
You shall [still deliver the same daily quota] of bricks. The officers of the children [people] of Israel [saw they were in trouble,] after [Pharaoh] said, You shall not [reduce their quota] of bricks from your daily task. And they met Moses & Aaron who stood in the [road] as they [left from] the Pharaoh. |
They [told Moses, Let] the Lord look on you & judge, because you have made us [hated] in the [sight] of the Pharaoh & his servants, [enough] to put a sword in their hands to [kill] us. Moses returned to the Lord & said, Lord, [why have] You [brought trouble] on this people? |
Why is it You have sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he [has] done evil to this people? Neither have You delivered Your people, at all. |