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1 Derefter gik Moses og Aron hen og sagde til Farao: "Så siger HE EN, Israels Gud: Lad mit Folk rejse, for at de kan holde Højtid for mig i Ørkenen!"

2 Men Farao sagde: "Hvem er HE EN, at jeg skulde adlyde ham og lade Israeliterne rejse? Jeg kender ikke noget til HE EN, og jeg vil heller ikke lade Israeliterne rejse!"

3 De svarede: "Hebræernes Gud har mødt os; tillad os nu at drage tre Dagsrejser ud i Ørkenen og ofre til HE EN. vor Gud, for at han ikke skal slå os med Pest eller Sværd!"

4 Men Ægypterkongen sagde til dem: "Hvorfor vil I, Moses og Aron, forstyrre Folket i dets Arbejde? Gå til eders Trællearbejde!"

5 Og Farao sagde: "Folket er så vist dovent nok; og nu vil I have dem fri fra deres Trællearbejde!"

6 Samme Dag udstedte Farao følgende Befaling til Fogederne over Folket og dets Opsynsmænd:

7 "I skal ikke mere som hidtil give Folket Halm til Teglarbejdet; de skal selv gå ud og sanke Halm;

8 men alligevel skal I pålægge dem at lave lige så mange Teglsten som hidtil, I må ikke eftergive dem noget; thi de er dovne, og derfor er det, de råber op og siger: Lad os drage ud og ofre til vor Gud!

9 Strengt Arbejde skal de Mennesker have, for at de kan være optaget deraf og ikke af Løgnetale."

10 Da gik Folkets Fogeder og Opsynsmænd ud og sagde til Folket: "Således siger Farao: Jeg vil ikke mere give eder Halm;

11 gå selv ud og sank eder Halm, hvor I kan finde det, men i eders Arbejde bliver der intet eftergivet!"

12 Da spredte Folket sig over hele Ægypten for at samle Halmstrå.

13 Men Fogederne trængte på og sagde: "I skal Dag for Dag yde fuldt Arbejde, ligesom dengang I fik Halm!"

14 Og Israeliternes Opsynsmænd, som Faraos Fogeder havde sat over dem, fik Prygl, og der blev sagt til dem: "Hvorfor stryger I ikke mere det fastsatte Antal Teglsten ligesom før?"

15 Da gik Israeliternes Opsynsmænd hen og råbte til Farao: "Hvorfor handler du således med din Fræne?

16 Dine Trælle får ingen Halm, og dog siger de til os: Lav Teglsten! Og dine Trælle får Prygl; du forsynder dig mod dit Folk."

17 Men han svarede: "I er dovne, det er det, I er! Derfor siger I: Lad os rejse ud og ofre til HE EN!

18 Gå nu hen og tag fat på eders Arbejde; I får ingen Halm, men I skal levere det samme Antal Teglsten!"

19 Israeliternes Opsynsmænd følte sig ilde stedt ved at skulle sige: "Der må intet eftergives i, hvad I daglig skal skaffe af Teglsten!"

20 Og da de ved deres Bortgang fra Farao traf Moses og Aron, som stod og ventede på dem,

21 sagde de til dem: "HE EN se til eder og dømme eder, fordi I har vakt Afsky mod os hos Farao og hans Tjenere og lagt dem et Sværd i Hånden til at dræbe os med!"

22 Da vendte Moses sig igen til HE EN og sagde: "Herre, hvorfor har du handlet ilde med dette Folk? Hvorfor har du udsendt mig?

23 Siden jeg har været hos Farao og talt i dit Navn, har han handlet ilde med dette Folk, og frelst dit Folk har du ikke!"

   


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7127. 'By no means do I give you straw' means that the most general factual knowledge was no longer made available from that source. This is clear from the meaning of 'by no means giving' as no longer supplying; and from the meaning of 'straw' as the most general factual knowledge of all, dealt with in 7112. What these words imply has been stated [in that paragraph] above. But in addition to this it should be mentioned that in the next life the ones who toss straw - that is, the most general factual knowledge of all - in the way of the upright whom they molest are primarily people who have belonged to the Church. They are people who convinced themselves that faith alone saved, yet did not lead a life of faith but a life of evil. In the next life these people are the same as they were in the world; they know the arguments that are used to substantiate faith alone, which they say saves a person irrespective of the life he has been leading.

[2] But those substantiations are nothing else than reasonings that agree with the initial proposition; for anything at all, even that which is extremely false, can be substantiated by means of reasonings, and can also be presented to simple persons as the truth by the use of clever speaking and drawing of conclusions. For this purpose those people use chiefly the most general statements of all in the Word, which without the internal sense of the Word can be twisted to support any opinion at all. These kinds of statements are what they toss in the way of those who belong to the spiritual Church; they use such to molest them. But these statements are still no more than 'straw for making bricks'. For those people exclude the absolutely essential virtue, namely charity. They do, it is true, say that the works of charity are the fruits of faith; but they still consider them to be worthless and convince others that regardless of what kind of life a person has led he is saved by faith alone, even during the last hour of his life, and so is saved by faith without its fruits, thus without a life of faith and charity.

[3] So long as such ideas are tossed in their way the upright in the next life possess arguments to fight with and can defend themselves; for they see that reasonings are unsound when the essential virtue, which is charity, is so excluded, and also when they see that such people set no store by the life a person leads. These are the considerations that every single facet of the next life enables them to see, as in broad daylight. These then are the things that are to be understood by the basest kind of factual knowledge, the most general of all, meant by 'straw'. People who have convinced themselves that faith alone saves and yet have led a life of evil are in hell, quite deep down and slightly in front over to the right, from where - as I have heard them - they molest the upright with their reasonings. But being led by the Lord by means of angels, the upright have rejected those reasonings as worthless, and they have also detected the fallacies contained in proofs and arguments based on general truths in the Word.

  
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Exodus 5

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1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

3 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

5 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."

6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

7 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.

11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"

12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's 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?"

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

16 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."

17 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'

18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

19 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!"

20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

21 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."

22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? why is it that you have sent me?

23 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."