# Exodus 5

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/5

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Afterward Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says Yahweh, God of Israel: Send my people away, that they may celebrate a feast for me in the wilderness."
2. Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should heed his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
3. They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or sword."
4. The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, release the people from their works? Go to your burdens!"
5. Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you cause them to rest from their burdens."
6. That day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
7. You shall no longer supply the people with straw to make the bricks, as before. Let them go gather straw for themselves.
8. Assign them the same quota of bricks they made before; do not reduce any of it, for they are idle, and that is why they cry out, saying, "Let us go and sacrifice to our God."
9. Let the labor be heavier upon the men, and let them work in it; let them not pay attention to words of falsehood.
10. The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh: I am not giving you straw."
11. You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, for nothing will be diminished from your work.
12. The people scattered across all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13. The taskmasters pressed them, saying, "Accomplish your works, the daily task, as when there was straw."
14. Pharaoh's taskmasters struck the overseers of Israel's sons whom they had set over them, saying, "Why have you not completed your brick quota as before, even yesterday and even today?"
15. The officers of Israel's sons came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?"
16. No straw is given to your servants for bricks, and they say to us, "Make bricks!"—yet behold, your servants are beaten, and you sin against your people.
17. He said, "You're idle, you're idle! That's why you say, 'Let us go sacrifice to Yahweh.'"
18. Now go and work; no straw will be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.
19. The Israelite foremen saw that they were in adversity when it was said, "Do not diminish the daily task from your bricks."
20. They met Moses and Aaron, who stood ready to meet them as they came out from Pharaoh.
21. They said to them, "May Yahweh see you and judge, because you have made our smell stink in Pharaoh's eyes and his servants' eyes, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
22. Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "My Lord, why have you afflicted this people? Why have you sent me like this?"
23. Since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has harmed this people, yet you have not at all rescued your people.

## Nearby chapters

[Exodus 4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/4.md)
[Exodus 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/exodus/6.md)

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