What happensPermalink
Pharaoh rejects Moses’s request to go into the desert and worship. He makes the Hebrews gather their own straw for bricks, but doesn’t reduce their brick quota. The people blame Moses and Aaron. Moses complains to God.
Why it mattersPermalink
The Israelites have to leave Egypt to worship because their sacrifices were abomination to Egyptians. Pharaoh calls Moses’s and Aaron’s demand to “let my people go” “vain words.” God will prove him wrong.
Key versePermalink
Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”