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1 Después de haber hablado con los ancianos, Moisés y Aarón fueron a ver al faraón, y le dijeron: ―Le traemos un mensaje de parte del Señor, Dios de Israel. Así dice el Señor: “Deja salir a mi pueblo, porque quiero que vayan al desierto a hacerme fiesta y a adorarme”.
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
2 ―¿Conque esas tenemos? —replicó el faraón—. ¿Quién es el Señor para que yo tenga que obedecerlo y dejarlos ir? Yo no conozco al tal Señor, así que no dejaré salir a Israel.
2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
3 Pero Aarón y Moisés insistieron: ―El Dios de los hebreos ha salido a nuestro encuentro, y nos ordenó ir a un lugar en el desierto, que queda a tres días de camino, para ofrecerle sacrificios. Si no obedecemos al Señor nuestro Dios, nos podrá castigar por medio de las pestes o la espada.
3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
4 ―¿Quiénes se creen ustedes? —gritó el faraón—. ¿Por qué distraen al pueblo de su trabajo? ¡Vuelvan a sus tareas!
4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
5 Not in this translation
5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
6 Ese mismo día, el faraón les envió la siguiente orden a sus cuadrilleros y a los capataces que tenían que vigilar el trabajo del pueblo de Israel:
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
7 «No se entregará más paja a los hebreos para la elaboración de los ladrillos. Sin embargo, no se les disminuirá en un solo ladrillo su cuota de producción, porque parecen no tener suficiente trabajo. De otro modo no hablarían de ir al desierto a ofrecerle sacrificio a su Dios.
7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 Not in this translation
8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
9 ¡Cárguenlos de trabajo y háganlos sudar! ¡Eso les enseñará a no prestar oídos a las mentiras de Moisés y de Aarón!».
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
10 Los cuadrilleros y los capataces le informaron al pueblo: ―El faraón ha dado órdenes de que no les proporcionemos la paja para los ladrillos. Deben ir ustedes mismos a buscarla a donde puedan. Y deberán producir tantos ladrillos como antes.
10 The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
11 Not in this translation
11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
12 Y el pueblo se dispersó en busca de paja.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 Los cuadrilleros fueron muy crueles: «Completen la misma cuota de producción de antes» les decían.
13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
14 Y azotaban a los capataces israelitas que habían nombrado, y les decían: «Ni ayer ni anteayer cumplieron con la cuota diaria de producción de ladrillos, ¿por qué?».
14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
15 Los capataces fueron a quejarse al faraón, y le rogaron: ―¡No nos traten así!
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
16 No se nos proporciona la paja que necesitamos y se nos exige que hagamos la misma cantidad de ladrillos que antes. Se nos está azotando por algo que no es culpa nuestra. Es culpa de los cuadrilleros que nos hacen demandas tan irrazonables.
16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
17 Pero el faraón replicó: ―Ustedes no tienen suficiente trabajo; de lo contrario no estarían diciendo: “Vamos a ofrecerle sacrificios al Señor”.
17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
18 ¡Vuelvan al trabajo! No se les dará paja, y tendrán que cumplir con la misma cuota de ladrillos.
18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
19 Los capataces vieron que estaban en una situación realmente difícil.
19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
20 Al salir de la entrevista con el faraón, encontraron a Moisés y a Aarón, que los esperaban afuera del palacio,
20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
21 y les dijeron: «Que Dios los juzgue por habernos hecho odiosos al faraón y a su pueblo. Ustedes le han dado una excusa para que nos mate».
21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
22 Entonces Moisés oró al Señor, y le dijo: ―Señor, ¿cómo puedes maltratar a tu pueblo de esta manera? ¿Por qué me enviaste, si ibas a hacerles esto?
22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
23 Desde que le di tu mensaje al faraón, los ha tratado en forma aún más brutal, y tú no has librado a tu pueblo.
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (16)
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- 1 Exodus 10:9; Acts 4:29; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Ezekiel 2:6; Matthew 10:28
- 2 Exodus 3:19; Job 21:15; 2 Kings 18:35; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Romans 1:28
- 3 Exodus 3:18; 2 Kings 17:25; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Deuteronomy 28:21; Zechariah 14:16–19
- 4 Exodus 1:11; Amos 7:10; Acts 24:5; Luke 23:2; Jeremiah 38:4
- 6 Exodus 5:19; Exodus 5:10; Joshua 8:33; 2 Chronicles 26:11; Joshua 24:4
- 7 Genesis 24:25; Judges 19:19
- 9 Ephesians 5:6; Malachi 3:14; Zechariah 1:6; 2 Kings 18:20; Job 16:3
- 10 Exodus 1:11; Proverbs 29:12; Exodus 3:7
- 12 Obadiah 18; Nahum 1:10; Exodus 15:7; 1 Corinthians 3:12; Joel 2:5
- 14 Isaiah 10:24
- 17 Exodus 5:8; John 6:27; Matthew 26:8; 2 Thessalonians 3:10–11
- 18 Daniel 2:9–13; Ezekiel 18:18
- 19 Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:36
- 21 Genesis 34:30; 2 Samuel 10:6; Exodus 6:9; Genesis 16:5; 1 Samuel 27:12
- 22 Jeremiah 20:7; 1 Kings 19:10; Numbers 11:14–15; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:11
- 23 Jeremiah 11:21; Psalm 118:26; Hebrews 10:36–37; Isaiah 26:17–18; Isaiah 28:16
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This abased Pharaoh. For, "I know not," he saith, "the Lord," and he became inferior to flies and frogs, and the locusts, and after that with his very arms and horses was he drowned in the sea.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)