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            <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bricks Without Straw</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Who is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and I will not let Israel go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then they said, &#8220;The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the king of Egypt said, &#8220;Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said, &#8220;Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don&#8217;t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to our God.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, &#8220;This is what Pharaoh says: &#8216;I will not give you any more straw. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, &#8220;Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And Pharaoh&#8217;s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: &#8220;Why have you treated your servants this way? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, &#8216;Make bricks!&#8217; Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Lazy, that&#8217;s what you are&#8212;lazy! That is why you keep saying, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, &#8220;You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and they said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God Promises Deliverance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Moses returned to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.1">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.2">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God also said to Moses, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.3">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> but by my name the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">See note at 3:15.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I did not make myself fully known to them. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkEXO">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.4">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.5">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.6">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, say to the Israelites: &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.7">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.12">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">I am uncircumcised of lips</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 30</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkEXO">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="EXO.6.13">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch68" data-usfm="PSA.68.4">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">extol him who rides on the clouds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">name, / prepare the way for him who rides through the deserts</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">rejoice before him&#8212;his name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch68" data-usfm="PSA.68.5">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="content">is God in his holy dwelling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch68" data-usfm="PSA.68.6">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God sets the lonely in families,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the desolate in a homeland</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">he leads out the prisoners with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="m"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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