Exodus 5:1-4

Making Bricks Without Straw

¹ Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may hold _t a feast to me in the wilderness.'" ² But Pharaoh said, _u "Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, _v I will not let Israel go." ³ Then they said, "The _w God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword." ⁴ But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your _x burdens."

1. Cross References
   Exodus 10:9
   Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Kings 18:35
   Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
   Job 21:15
   What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 3:19
   But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 3:18
   And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
   Exodus 7:16
   And you shall say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. But so far, you have not obeyed.
   Exodus 9:1
   Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
   Exodus 9:13
   Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 1:11
   Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.