02:005:009 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may
labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
02:005:010 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I
will not give you straw.
02:005:011 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of
your work shall be diminished.
02:005:012 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land
of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
02:005:013 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,
your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
02:005:014 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore
have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to
day, as heretofore?
02:005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
02:005:016 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to
us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is
in thine own people.
02:005:017 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let
us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
02:005:018 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be
given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
02:005:019 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they
were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from
your bricks of your daily task.
02:005:020 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
02:005:021 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay
us.
02:005:022 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore
hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent
me?
02:005:023 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath
done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at
all.
02:006:001 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I
will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and
with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
02:006:002 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
02:006:003 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to
them.
02:006:004 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they
were strangers.
02:006:005 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of
Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant.
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