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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 5 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Exodus 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/4.htm" title="Exodus 4">◄</a> Exodus 5 <a href="../exodus/6.htm" title="Exodus 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/exodus/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Opposition to the Plan of God</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, ‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the desert.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But Pharaoh said, “Who is the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, and I will not release Israel!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the desert so that we may sacrifice to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people: <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past – both yesterday and today?”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way? <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and they said to them, “May the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”</p> <p class="title">The Assurance of Deliverance</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Moses returned to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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