Help QuickNav Adv. Options
LSB

LSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Exodus 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Pharaoh Will Not Let the People Go

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 -

And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Yahweh, and also, I will not let Israel go.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest He confront us with pestilence or with the sword.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you [fn]draw the people away from their [fn]work? Get back to your [fn]hard labors!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their hard labors!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:6 - So on that day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7 - “You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - “But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall set upon them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, therefore they are crying out, ‘[fn]Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9 - “Let their slavery be hard on the men, and let them work at it so that they will have no regard for false words.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:10 -

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I am not going to give you any straw.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11 - ‘You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but no amount of your slave labor will be reduced.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:12 - So the people scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:13 - And the taskmasters were pressing them, saying, “Complete your [fn]work quota, [fn]the daily amount, just as when there was straw.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten [fn]and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:15 -

Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your slaves?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16 - “There is no straw given to your slaves, yet they keep saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your slaves are being beaten; but it is the [fn]sin of your own people.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - But he said, “You are lazy—lazy! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - “So now, go and labor; but straw will not be given to you, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:19 - Then the foremen of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble [fn]because they were told, “You must not reduce [fn]your daily amount of bricks.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:20 - When they left Pharaoh’s presence, they confronted Moses and Aaron, [fn]standing there to meet them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - And they said to them, “May Yahweh look upon you and judge, for you have made [fn]us a foul smell in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
(Exo 3:1—4:17 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 -

Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - “Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”
See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
Lit loose
Lit works
Lit burdens
Lit saying, ‘Let
Lit works
Lit the matter of a day in its day
Lit saying
Or fault
Lit saying
Lit from your bricks the matter of a day in its day
Lit taking their stand
Lit our savor to stink
LSB

Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation

All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.

LSBible.org

For more information on this translation, see the LSB Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
LSB
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
LSB
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Exodus Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras