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So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
Then, as they came out from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron who stood there to meet them.
'Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.' "
But he said, "You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, "Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw."
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!"
"Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks."
And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble after it was said, "You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota."
"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."
Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.' "
And Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, nor will I let Israel go."
"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why are you dealing thus with your servants?
"There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, 'Make brick!' And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people."
And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh: 'I will not give you straw.
So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people? Why is it You have sent me?
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
Then the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor."