Exodus

Chapter 5

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

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1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Send my people away, so they can hold a feast for me in the wilderness.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Shalach is “send away.” A stock English command is not printed. Yachoggu is to hold a feast, a chag, not a general word for worship.

2Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice and send Israel away? I do not know Yahweh, and I will not send Israel away either.”

3They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, please, a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or he will strike us with plague or with sword.”

4The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you loose the people from their work? Go to your burdens.”

5Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you have made them stop their burdens.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Hishbatem is the rest-verb, the verb of sabbath: you have made them cease. “You have made them stop” is printed.

6That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people and their officers,

7“You shall no longer give the people straw for making bricks, as yesterday and the day before. They themselves shall go and gather straw for themselves.

8The quota of bricks they were making yesterday and the day before, you shall lay on them. You shall not reduce it, because they are slack. That is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

9Let the work weigh heavy on the men, and let them do it, and let them not look to lying words.”

10The people’s overseers and their officers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: I am not giving you straw.

11You go, get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it. Nothing is reduced from your work.”

12The people scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

13The overseers pressed them, saying, “Finish your work, each day’s task in its day, as when there was straw.”

14The officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s overseers had set over them, were beaten, and told, “Why have you not finished your quota of bricks, yesterday and today, as before?”

15The officers of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants this way?

16No straw is given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks.’ And now your servants are beaten, and the fault is your people’s.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Vechatat ammekha is a noun phrase, “and the offense of your people.” It is not a full verb in this copy. “The fault is your people’s” is printed. “You have sinned against your people” would add a verb the line does not have.

17He said, “You are slack, slack. That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

18Now go, work. Straw will not be given to you, and you will still give the full tally of bricks.”

19The officers of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when they were told, “You shall not reduce your bricks, each day’s task in its day.”

20They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing there to meet them as they came out from Pharaoh.

21They said to them, “May Yahweh look on you and judge, because you have made our smell stink in Pharaoh’s eyes and in his servants’ eyes, putting a sword in their hand to kill us.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Hib’ashtem et rechenu is “you have made our smell stink.” The smell is printed. A polite “you have made us offensive” is not.

22Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “Lord, why have you done harm to this people? Why did you send me?

Notes (1)

Translation
The address is Adonai, “Lord,” not the four consonants.

23From the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done harm to this people, and you have not rescued, you have not rescued your people.”

Exodus

Chapter 5

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Send my people away, so they can hold a feast for me in the wilderness.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Shalach is “send away.” A stock English command is not printed. Yachoggu is to hold a feast, a chag, not a general word for worship.

2Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice and send Israel away? I do not know Yahweh, and I will not send Israel away either.”

3They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, please, a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or he will strike us with plague or with sword.”

4The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you loose the people from their work? Go to your burdens.”

5Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you have made them stop their burdens.”

Notes (1)

Translation
Hishbatem is the rest-verb, the verb of sabbath: you have made them cease. “You have made them stop” is printed.