Exodus 5 (NET)

Exodus 5:1¹Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, ‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the wilderness.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:2²But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:3³And they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:4⁴The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:5⁵Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:6⁶That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:7⁷“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:8⁸But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:9⁹Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:10¹⁰So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:11¹¹You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:12¹²So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:13¹³The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:14¹⁴The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past—both yesterday and today?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:15¹⁵The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:16¹⁶No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:17¹⁷But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:18¹⁸So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:19¹⁹The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:20²⁰When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:21²¹and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:22²²Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 5:23²³From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions