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?"
005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
005:016 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."
005:017 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say,
'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'
005:018 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you,
yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
005:019 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!"
005:020 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came
forth from Pharaoh:
005:021 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."
005:022 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought
trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
005:023 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."
006:001 Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh,
for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong
hand he shall drive them out of his land."
006:002 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh;
006:003 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty;
but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
006:004 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they
lived as aliens.
006:005 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered
my covenant.
006:006 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
006:007 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
006:008 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage:
I am Yahweh.'"
006:009 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen