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And afterwardMoses and Aaron went in, and toldPharaoh, Thus saith the LORDGod of Israel, Let my peoplego, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
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And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, threedays'journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
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And the tale of the bricks, which they did makeheretofore*, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh'staskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore*?
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There is no strawgiven unto thy servants, and they say to us, Makebrick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
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And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily*task.
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And they said unto them, The LORDlook upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.