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And Pharao answered: what felowe is the Lord, that I shulde heare his voyce for to let Israel goo?
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I knowe not the Lorde, nether will let Israel goo.And they sayde: the God of the Ebrues hath mett with vs: let vs goo (we praye the) iij. dayes iourney in to the deserte, that we maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde oure God: lest he smyte vs ether with pestilence or with swerde.
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Then sayde the kinge of Egipte vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people fro their worke, gett you vnto youre laboure.
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And Pharao sayde further more: beholde, there is moch people in the londe, and ye make them playe and let their worke stonde.
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And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskemasters ouer the people and vnto the officers saynge:
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se that ye geue the people no moare strawe to make brycke with all as ye dyd in tyme passed: let them goo and gather them strawe them selues,
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and the nombre of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, laye vnto their charges also, and minysh nothinge therof. For they be ydill ad therfore crye saynge: let vs goo and do sacrifice vnto oure God.
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They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they maye laboure theryn, and than will they not turne them selues to false wordes.
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Than went the taskemasters of the people and the officers out and tolde the people saynge: thus sayeth Pharao: I will geue you no moare strawe,
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but goo youre selues ad gather you strawe where ye can fynde it, yet shall none of youre laboure be minyshed.
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Than the people scatered abrode thorowe out all the lande of Egipte for to gather them stubyll to be in stead of strawe.