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

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Exodus 10:9, Exodus 10:9, 1 Kings 21:20, Exodus 3:18, Acts 4:29

2Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

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Exodus 3:19, Exodus 3:19, Job 21:15, Job 21:15, 2 Kings 18:35

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

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Exodus 3:18, Exodus 3:18, Ezra 7:23, Ezekiel 6:11, Deuteronomy 28:21

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

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Exodus 1:11, Exodus 1:11, Acts 24:5, Acts 16:20, Acts 16:21

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

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Exodus 1:7, Exodus 1:11, Proverbs 14:28, Exodus 1:7, Exodus 1:11

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

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Exodus 5:10, Exodus 5:19, Exodus 5:10, Exodus 5:19, Exodus 5:13

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

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Genesis 24:25, Judges 19:19, Genesis 24:25, Judges 19:19

8The 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.'

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Psalms 106:41, Psalms 106:41

9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may regard it; and do not let them regard lying words."

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Ephesians 5:6, Job 16:3, Jeremiah 43:2, Zechariah 1:6, Malachi 3:14

10The 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.

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Exodus 1:11, Exodus 1:11, Proverbs 29:12, Exodus 3:7, Proverbs 29:12

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

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Exodus 5:13, Exodus 5:14, Exodus 5:13, Exodus 5:14

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

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Isaiah 47:14, Isaiah 5:24, Joel 2:5, Nahum 1:10, Obadiah 1:18

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

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14The 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?"

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Isaiah 10:24, Isaiah 10:24

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

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16No 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."

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

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Matthew 26:8, John 6:27, Exodus 5:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:11

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

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Ezekiel 18:18, Daniel 2:9, Daniel 2:13, Ezekiel 18:18, Daniel 2:9

19The 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!"

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Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Deuteronomy 32:36

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

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21and they said to them, "May the Lord 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."

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Genesis 34:30, Genesis 34:30, Exodus 6:9, 1 Chronicles 19:6, 2 Samuel 10:6

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

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Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:7, 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Samuel 30:6, Numbers 11:11

23For 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."

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Isaiah 28:16, Jeremiah 11:21, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 10:37, Psalms 118:26