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The Israelis’ Appeal Rejected by Pharaoh

15 The Israeli supervisors came and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you doing this to us?[a] 16 No straw is being given to us, yet they’re saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, we are being beaten. It’s wrong how you are treating your people!”

17 Then Pharaoh[b] said, “You are lazy, lazy! That’s why[c] you’re saying, ‘Let’s go offer sacrifices to the Lord.’

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:15 Lit. your servants; and so throughout the book
  2. Exodus 5:17 Lit. he
  3. Exodus 5:17 Lit. therefore

15 Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way? 16 Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

17 Pharaoh said, “Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy!(A) That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

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