Afterward 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.’” Exo 10:9Act 4:291Co 5:81Ki 21:20Ezk 2:6Jon 3:3-4Mat 10:28Exo 3:18
Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.” Exo 3:19Job 21:152Ki 18:352Th 1:8Jhn 16:3Rom 1:281Sa 2:122Ch 32:15
They 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.” Exo 3:182Ch 30:82Ki 17:25Deu 28:21Ezr 7:23Zec 14:16-19Ezk 6:11
The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!” Exo 1:11Act 24:5Amo 7:10Luk 23:2Act 16:20-21Jer 38:4 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.” Exo 1:7-11Pro 14:28 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, Exo 5:10Exo 5:192Ch 26:11Deu 1:15Deu 16:18Exo 1:11Exo 3:7Exo 5:13-15 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. Gen 24:25Jdg 19:19 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’ Psa 106:41 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.” 2Ki 18:20Eph 5:6Jer 43:2Job 16:3Mal 3:14Zec 1:6
The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw. Exo 1:11Exo 3:7Pro 29:12 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’” Exo 5:13-14 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 1Co 3:12Exo 15:7Isa 47:14Isa 5:24Jol 2:5Nam 1:10Oba 1:18 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!” The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?” Isa 10:24
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants? 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.”
But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the LORD.’ 2Th 3:10-11Exo 5:8Jhn 6:27Mat 26:8 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!” Dan 2:9-13Ezk 18:18
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!” Ecc 4:1Ecc 5:8Deu 32:36
They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh. 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!” Gen 34:301Ch 19:61Sa 13:41Sa 27:122Sa 10:6Exo 6:9Gen 16:52Co 2:15-16
Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? Jer 20:71Ki 19:101Ki 19:41Sa 30:6Exo 17:4Hab 2:3Num 11:11Num 11:14-15 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!” Heb 10:36-37Isa 26:17-18Isa 28:16Jer 11:21Psa 118:26Jhn 5:43