¹ After these things Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go that they may sacrifice to me in the desert.

² But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

³ And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days' journey into the wilderness and to sacrifice to the Lord our God: lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.

⁴ The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.

⁵ And Pharao said: The people of the land is numerous: you see that the multitude is increased: how much more if you give them rest from their works?

⁶ Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:

⁷ You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.

⁸ And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

⁹ Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.

¹⁰ And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw:

¹¹ Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.

¹² And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

¹³ And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do when straw was given you.

¹⁴ And they that were over the works of the children of Israel were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks both yesterday and to day as before?

¹⁵ And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?

¹⁶ Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before: behold we thy servants are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.

¹⁷ And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

¹⁸ Go therefore, and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.

¹⁹ And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

²⁰ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:

²¹ And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword to kill us.

²² And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?

²³ For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.

¹¹ "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

¹² the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

¹³ Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

¹⁴ "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁵ Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

¹⁶ "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁷ "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

¹⁸ and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

¹⁹ and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

²⁰ But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

²¹ It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

²² "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."