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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1">Bricks Without Straw</div><div class="p"> 1Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, &#8220;This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 2Pharaoh said, &#8220;Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3Then they said, &#8220;The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4But the king of Egypt said, &#8220;Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!&#8221; 5Then Pharaoh said, &#8220;Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 6That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: 7&#8220;You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. 8But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don&#8217;t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to our God.&#8217; 9Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 10Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, &#8220;This is what Pharaoh says: &#8216;I will not give you any more straw. 11Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; 12So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. 13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, &#8220;Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.&#8221; 14And Pharaoh&#8217;s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 15Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: &#8220;Why have you treated your servants this way? 16Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, &#8216;Make bricks!&#8217; Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 17Pharaoh said, &#8220;Lazy, that&#8217;s what you are&#8212;lazy! That is why you keep saying, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.&#8217; 18Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 19The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, &#8220;You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.&#8221; 20When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them, 21and they said, &#8220;May the Lord look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">God Promises Deliverance</div><div class="p"> 22Moses returned to the Lord and said, &#8220;Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? 23Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"> 1Then the Lord said to Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 2God also said to Moses, &#8220;I am the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,#6:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai but by my name the Lord#6:3 See note at 3:15. I did not make myself fully known to them. 4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. 5Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.</div><div class="p"> 6&#8220;Therefore, say to the Israelites: &#8216;I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. 7I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. 8And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.</div><div class="p"> 10Then the Lord said to Moses, 11&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12But Moses said to the Lord, &#8220;If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips#6:12 Hebrew I am uncircumcised of lips; also in verse 30?&#8221;</div><div class="s1">Family Record of Moses and Aaron</div><div class="p"> 13Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"> 14These were the heads of their families#6:14 The Hebrew for families here and in verse 25 refers to units larger than clans.:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1">The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.</div><div class="pi1"> 15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.</div><div class="pi1"> 16These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.</div><div class="pi1"> 17The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.</div><div class="pi1"> 18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.</div><div class="pi1"> 19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.</div><div class="pi1">These were the clans of Levi according to their records.</div><div class="pi1"> 20Amram married his father&#8217;s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.</div><div class="pi1"> 21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zikri.</div><div class="pi1"> 22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.</div><div class="pi1"> 23Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.</div><div class="pi1"> 24The sons of Korah were: Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.</div><div class="pi1"> 25Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1">These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, &#8220;Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.&#8221; 27They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt&#8212;this same Moses and Aaron.</div><div class="s1">Aaron to Speak for Moses</div><div class="p"> 28Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, 29he said to him, &#8220;I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 30But Moses said to the Lord, &#8220;Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?&#8221;</div>
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