Bricks Without Straw: The Costiliness of Resistance (Exod 5:10-21)
After rejecting the demand to release Israel, Pharaoh cracks down on God’s people. He moves to break their spirit and resolidify his own rule. These notes continue a study of the Pentateuch that I am writing for a Sunday school curriculum.
10 Then the slave drivers and the foremen went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw. 11 Go and get your own straw
Reading Exodus 5:1-9 — Who is the LORD?
Continued commentary on the book of Exodus.
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert.’ ”
2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go.”
3 Then they said, “The