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You shall no more give the people straw to make brick; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
The very same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers,
Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, Why do you deal like this with your servants?
And the foremen met Moses and Aaron, who were standing in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh.
So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather the short stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Finish your work, your daily quotas, as when there was straw.
Get out now and get to work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the full quota of bricks.
And the Hebrew foremen saw that they were in an evil situation when it was said, You shall not diminish in the least your full daily quota of bricks.
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.
But Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.
The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
But [Pharaoh] said, You are idle, lazy and idle! That is why you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, O Lord, why have You dealt evil to this people? Why did You ever send me?
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began his eleven-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
The king of Egypt said to Moses and Aaron, Why do you take the people from their jobs? Get to your burdens!
Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no attention to lying words.
AFTERWARD MOSES and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
But the number of the bricks which they made before you shall still require of them; you shall not diminish it in the least. For they are idle; that is why they cry, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.