| 1 | Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, `Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.`" | 1Ki 21:20 Ps 119:46 Ezk 2:6 Jon 3:3 Jon 3:4 Mt 10:18 Mt 10:28 Ac 4:29 |
| 2 | Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don`t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go." | Ex 3:19 2Ki 18:35 2Ch 32:15 2Ch 32:19 Jb 21:15 Ps 10:4 Ps 12:4 Ps 14:1 |
| 3 | They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days` journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword." | Ex 3:18 |
| 4 | The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!" | Jer 38:4 Am 7:10 Lk 23:2 Ac 16:20 Ac 16:21 Ac 24:5 |
| 5 | Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." | Ex 1:7-11 Pr 14:28 |
| 6 | The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, | Ex 5:10 Ex 5:13 Ex 5:15 Ex 5:19 Ex 1:11 Pr 12:10 |
| 7 | "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. | Gn 24:25 Jg 19:19 |
| 8 | The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, `Let us go and sacrifice to our God.` | Ps 106:41 |
| 9 | Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don`t let them pay any attention to lying words." | 2Ki 18:20 Jb 16:3 Jer 43:2 Zc 1:6 Mal 3:14 Eph 5:6 |
| 10 | The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw. | Ex 1:11 Pr 29:12 |
| 11 | Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished." | Ex 5:13 Ex 5:14 |
| 12 | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. | Ex 15:7 Isa 5:24 Isa 47:14 Jl 2:5 Nah 1:10 Ob 1:18 1Co 3:12 |
| 13 | The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" |
| 14 | The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh`s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven`t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?" |
| 15 | Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? |
| 16 | No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, `Make brick!` and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people." |
| 17 | But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.` | Mt 26:8 Jn 6:27 2Th 3:10 2Th 3:11 |
| 18 | Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!" | Ezk 18:18 Dn 2:9-13 |
| 19 | The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!" | Dt 32:36 Ec 4:1 Ec 5:8 |
| 20 | They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: |
| 21 | and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us." | Ex 4:31 Ex 6:9 Gn 16:5 |
| 22 | Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? | Ex 17:4 1Sa 30:6 Ps 73:25 Jer 12:1 |
| 23 | For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all." | Ps 118:26 Jer 11:21 Jn 5:43 |
