rsv Exodus:4:18-6:12

rsv@Exodus:4:18 @ Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

rsv@Exodus:4:19 @ And the LORD said to Moses in Mid'ian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

rsv@Exodus:4:20 @ So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.

rsv@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

rsv@Exodus:4:22 @ And you shall say to Pharaoh, `Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,

rsv@Exodus:4:23 @ and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.'"

rsv@Exodus:4:24 @ At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.

rsv@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

rsv@Exodus:4:26 @ So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

rsv@Exodus:4:27 @ The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

rsv@Exodus:4:28 @ And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.

rsv@Exodus:4:29 @ Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:4:30 @ And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

rsv@Exodus:4:31 @ And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

rsv@Exodus:5:1 @ Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

rsv@Exodus:5:2 @ But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

rsv@Exodus:5:3 @ Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."

rsv@Exodus:5:4 @ But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to your burdens."

rsv@Exodus:5:5 @ And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!"

rsv@Exodus:5:6 @ The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,

rsv@Exodus:5:7 @ "You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

rsv@Exodus:5:8 @ But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, `Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'

rsv@Exodus:5:9 @ Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words."

rsv@Exodus:5:10 @ So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, `I will not give you straw.

rsv@Exodus:5:11 @ Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"

rsv@Exodus:5:12 @ So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

rsv@Exodus:5:13 @ The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw."

rsv@Exodus:5:14 @ And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?"

rsv@Exodus:5:15 @ Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you deal thus with your servants?

rsv@Exodus:5:16 @ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, `Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

rsv@Exodus:5:17 @ But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

rsv@Exodus:5:18 @ Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks."

rsv@Exodus:5:19 @ The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in evil plight, when they said, "You shall by no means lessen your daily number of bricks."

rsv@Exodus:5:20 @ They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came forth from Pharaoh;

rsv@Exodus:5:21 @ and they said to them, "The LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

rsv@Exodus:5:22 @ Then Moses turned again to the LORD and said, "O LORD, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?

rsv@Exodus:5:23 @ For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all."

rsv@Exodus:6:1 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

rsv@Exodus:6:2 @ And God said to Moses, "I am the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:6:3 @ I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

rsv@Exodus:6:4 @ I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.

rsv@Exodus:6:5 @ Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant.

rsv@Exodus:6:6 @ Say therefore to the people of Israel, `I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,

rsv@Exodus:6:7 @ and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

rsv@Exodus:6:8 @ And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'"

rsv@Exodus:6:9 @ Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.

rsv@Exodus:6:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:6:11 @ "Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land."

rsv@Exodus:6:12 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?"

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