Exodus Chapter 5

• Exodus 5:1
  Exodus.
• Exodus 5:2
  Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to...
• Exodus 5:3
  Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
• Exodus 5:4
  They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD, our God, lest...
• Exodus 5:5
  The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
• Exodus 5:6
  Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
• Exodus 5:7
  The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
• Exodus 5:8
  “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Exodus 5:9
  You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they ...
• Exodus 5:10
  Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
• Exodus 5:11
  The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you str...
• Exodus 5:12
  Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
• Exodus 5:13
  So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
• Exodus 5:14
  The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
• Exodus 5:15
  The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quo...
• Exodus 5:16
  Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
• Exodus 5:17
  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.”
• Exodus 5:18
  But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
• Exodus 5:19
  Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
• Exodus 5:20
  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 brick...
• Exodus 5:21
  They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
• Exodus 5:22
  They said to them, “May the LORD 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 hi...
• Exodus 5:23
  Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
• Exodus 5:24
  For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”