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    Exodus 5

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    Pharaoh is asked for a feast and answers by removing the straw, preserving the brick quota, and calling the brickmakers lazy. It is a remarkably brisk exchange between worship and paperwork.

    A feast is refusedvv. 1–5

    Moses and Aaron bring Pharaoh the LORD’s demand: let Israel go into the wilderness for a feast. Pharaoh answers that he does not know the LORD and will not let Israel go. The request for sacrifice is treated as an interruption to labour, and the king sends them back to it.

    The quota remainsvv. 6–19

    That same day, Pharaoh removes the supplied straw but not the required number of bricks. The people scatter through Egypt gathering stubble, while the taskmasters press them to keep pace. The Israelite foremen are beaten, appeal to Pharaoh, and receive the same answer in sharper form: no straw, full quota, and the accusation of slackness. It is a particularly ingenious way to make a shortage sound like a moral failing.

    Moses asks whyvv. 20–23

    The foremen leave Pharaoh and confront Moses and Aaron, saying that their intervention has made them a stench before Pharaoh and put a sword into the hands of his officials. Moses then returns to the LORD with the plainest possible question: why send him, if Pharaoh has brought trouble and the people have not been delivered? The chapter records the question and stops there.

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    1. Exod 5:1After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

    2. Exod 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

    3. Exod 5:3“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

    4. Exod 5:4But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”

    5. Exod 5:5Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

    6. Exod 5:6That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

    7. Exod 5:7“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

    8. Exod 5:8But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

    9. Exod 5:9Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

    10. Exod 5:10So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.

    11. Exod 5:11Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

    12. Exod 5:12So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

    13. Exod 5:13The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

    14. Exod 5:14Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

    15. Exod 5:15So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

    16. Exod 5:16No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

    17. Exod 5:17“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

    18. Exod 5:18Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

    19. Exod 5:19The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

    20. Exod 5:20When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

    21. Exod 5:21“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

    22. Exod 5:22So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?

    23. Exod 5:23Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”

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    • 2Exodus 3:19But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
    • 2Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
    • 1Exodus 10:9“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
    • 22 Kings 18:35Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
    • 1Acts 4:29And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,
    • 3Exodus 3:18The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
    • 4Exodus 1:11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
    • 1Jonah 3:3–4This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
    • 11 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
    • 1Ezekiel 2:6But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.
    • 11 Kings 21:20When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
    • 1Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
    • 21Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
    • 1Psalms 119:46I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
    • 6Exodus 5:10So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
    • 6Exodus 5:19The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

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