Exodus 5

¹ And afterwards have MosesMoses and AaronAaron enteredentered, and they saysay unto PharaohPharaoh, `Thus saidsaid JehovahJehovah, GodGod of IsraelIsrael, SendSend My people away, and they keep a feast to Me in the wildernesswilderness;'

² and PharaohPharaoh saithsaith, `Who [is] JehovahJehovah, that I hearkenhearken to His voicevoice, to sendsend IsraelIsrael away? I have not knownknown JehovahJehovah, and IsraelIsrael also I do not send awaysend away.'

³ And they saysay, `The GodGod of the HebrewsHebrews hath metmet with usus, let usus gogo, we pray thee, a journey of threethree daysdays into the wildernesswilderness, and we sacrifice to JehovahJehovah our GodGod, lest He meetmeet usus with pestilencepestilence or with swordsword.'

⁴ And the king of EgyptEgypt saithsaith unto them, `Why, MosesMoses and AaronAaron, do ye free the people from its worksworks? go to your burdens.'

⁵ PharaohPharaoh also saithsaith, `Lo, numerous now [is] the people of the landland, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

⁶ And PharaohPharaoh commandethcommandeth, on that dayday, the exactorsexactors among the people and its authorities, saying,

⁷ `Ye do not add to givegive strawstraw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they gogo and have gathered strawstraw for themselves;

⁸ and the proper quantity of the bricks which they are making heretofore ye do putput on them, ye do not diminish from it, for they are remiss, therefore they are crying, saying, Let usus gogo, let usus sacrifice to our GodGod;

⁹ let the serviceservice be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying wordswords.'

¹⁰ And the exactorsexactors of the people, and its authorities, go out, and speakspeak unto the people, saying, `Thus saidsaid PharaohPharaoh, I do not givegive you strawstraw,

¹¹ ye -- gogo ye, take for yourselves strawstraw where ye findfind [it], for there is nothing of your serviceservice diminished.'

¹² And the people is scatteredscattered over all the landland of EgyptEgypt, to gather stubble for strawstubble for straw,

¹³ and the exactorsexactors are making haste, saying, `Complete your worksworks, the matter of a daya day in its dayday, as when there is strawstraw.'

¹⁴ And the authorities of the sons of Israelsons of Israel, whom the exactorsexactors of PharaohPharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-dayday?'

¹⁵ And the authorities of the sons of Israelsons of Israel comecome in and cry unto PharaohPharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servantsservants?

¹⁶ StrawStraw is not givengiven to thy servantsservants, and they are saying to usus, Make bricks, and lo, thy servantsservants are smittensmitten -- and thy people hath sinned.'

¹⁷ And he saithsaith, `Remiss -- ye are remiss, therefore ye are saying, Let usus gogo, let usus sacrifice to JehovahJehovah;

¹⁸ and now, gogo, serve; and strawstraw is not givengiven to you, and the measuremeasure of bricks ye do givegive.'

¹⁹ And the authorities of the sons of Israelsons of Israel seesee them in afflictionaffliction, saying, `Ye do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a daya day in its dayday.'

²⁰ And they meetmeet MosesMoses and AaronAaron standing to meetmeet them, in their coming out from PharaohPharaoh,

²¹ and saysay unto them, `JehovahJehovah looklook upon you, and judgejudge, because ye have caused our fragrancefragrance to stinkstink in the eyeseyes of PharaohPharaoh, and in the eyeseyes of his servantsservants -- to givegive a swordsword into their handhand to slayslay usus.'

²² And MosesMoses turneth backback unto JehovahJehovah, and saithsaith, `LordLord, why hast Thou done evil to this people? why [is] this? -- Thou hast sentsent me!

²³ and since I have comecome unto PharaohPharaoh, to speakspeak in Thy namename, he hath done evil to this people, and Thou hast not at all delivered Thy people.'