Bible Verses

The people scattered throughout Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

Go and get it yourselves wherever you can find it, but the amount of work done must be the same as before.”

The slave drivers and their Israelite foremen went out and said to the people, “Pharaoh will not give you any more straw.

 Make the work harder for the people and pay no attention to their lies.”

 but you will exact from them the same number of bricks as before, not one less. They are lazy, so they are crying out to go and sacrifice to their God.

 “You will no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. Let them go and find it themselves;

That same day, Pharaoh gave the following order to the taskmasters of the people and the Israelite foremen:

Restitution for Damage Caused The people are now numerous, and you are asking them to interrupt their work.”

The king of Egypt said to them: “Moses and Aaron, why do you take people away from their work? Get back to your tasks.

They then said: “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Allow us to make a three-day journey to the desert. There we shall offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God, lest he punish us with the plague or the sword.”