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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine sixty eight. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the book

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Speaker 1: of Exodus. As we start chapter five. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Moses will

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Speaker 1: stand before Pharaoh and talk about what he's looking for,

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Speaker 1: But first a word from this sponsor. This section is

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Speaker 1: labeled Bricks without Straw Exodus five. Afterward, Moses and Aaron

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Speaker 1: went to Pharaoh and said, this is what the Lord,

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Speaker 1: the God of Israel, says, Let my people go, so

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Speaker 1: that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I should obey

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Speaker 1: him and let Israel go. I do not know the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and I will not let Israel go. Then they said,

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Speaker 1: the God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now

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Speaker 1: let us take a three day journey into the wilderness

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Speaker 1: to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our god, or he

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Speaker 1: may strike us with plagues or with the sword. But

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Speaker 1: the King of Egypt said, Moses and Aaron, why are

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Speaker 1: you taking the people away from their labor. Get back

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Speaker 1: from working. The same day, Pharaoh gave this order to

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Speaker 1: the slave drivers and the overseers in charge of the people.

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Speaker 1: You were to no longer supply the people with straw

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Speaker 1: but require them to make the same number of bricks

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Speaker 1: sacrifice to our God. Now make the work harder for

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Speaker 1: attention to lies. Then the slave drivers and overseers went

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Speaker 1: out and said to the people, this is what Pharaoh says.

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Speaker 1: I will not give you any more straw. Go and

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Speaker 1: your work will not be reduced at all. So the

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Speaker 1: people scattered all over Egypt together stuble to use for straw.

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Speaker 1: The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, complete their work

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Speaker 1: required of you before each day, just as when you

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Speaker 1: they had appointed, demanding, why haven't you met your quota

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Speaker 1: have gone as God planned, but it certainly didn't go

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Speaker 1: and he is not requesting at this point that Pharaoh

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Speaker 1: the people of Israel, and this is not a union negotiation,

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Speaker 1: they are slaves. And so Pharaoh does not want to

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Speaker 1: instead makes things harder. He says, we're going to make

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Speaker 1: We're going to make you get your own straw, even

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Speaker 1: all the same quotas. So Moses goes to Pharaoh. Pharaoh responds,

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Speaker 1: appealed to Pharaoh, why have you treated your servants this way?

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Speaker 1: you are lazy. That is why you keep saying, let

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Speaker 1: You will not be given any straw, yet you must

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Speaker 1: each day. When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and

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Speaker 1: Lord look on you and judge you. You have made

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Speaker 1: us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put

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Speaker 1: Their life was bad and it's just gotten worse. And

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Speaker 1: this whole section here is going to be we have

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Speaker 1: have this section here of getting Israel out of Egypt.

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Speaker 1: Now we're going to have a section whether they learn

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Speaker 1: whole rest of the book where they're trying to get

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Speaker 1: Egypt out of Israel. And yes, I did say that correctly.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to take the people who were born in

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Speaker 1: that's actually going to be the hardest part of all.

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Speaker 1: But we're going to continue on a bit here. We're

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Speaker 1: six their first section. Here. Then, the Lord said to Moses,

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Speaker 1: Because of my mighty hand, he will let them go.

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Speaker 1: I did not make myself known to them. I also

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Speaker 1: Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not

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Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, go tell Pharaoh, King

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Speaker 1: But Moses said to the Lord, if the Israelites will

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Speaker 1: So God says to Moses, who comes to him and

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Speaker 1: Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh,

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Speaker 1: sons of Levi. According to their records, Ghershan, Kohath, and Marri.

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three years. The sons of Mary

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Speaker 1: live in a society where genealogies aren't all that interesting

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Speaker 1: as we get back, and this is where we start

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