Bible Verses

Moses then turned to the Lord and said: “O Lord! Why have you treated your people so badly? Why did you send me?

and said to them: “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, because you have made us hateful to Pharaoh and his ministers, and placed in his hand a sword to kill us.”

They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them,

The Israelite foremen felt they were in great trouble.

Go back to work. You will not be given straw, but you will produce the same number of bricks.”

Pharaoh replied: “Lazy! You are lazy, so you ask to go and sacrifice to the Lord.

We are given no straw, yet we are told to make bricks. We are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

The Israelite foremen complained to Pharaoh, saying: “Why do you treat us like this?

The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen they had placed over the people, saying: “Why haven’t your people completed the same amount of work as before?”

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying: “Complete the work required of you each day, as you did when you had straw.”