After this Moses and Aaron went unto Pharaoh and said:  This saith the Lord God of Israel:  Suffer my people to depart that they may sacrifice to me in desert.  Then said Pharaoh:  Who is that Lord that I may hear his voice and leave Israel?  I know not that Lord, nor I will not leave Israel.  They said to him:  God of the Hebrews hath called us that we go the journey of three days in the wilderness and sacrifice unto our Lord God, lest peradventure pestilence or war fall to us.  The king of Egypt said to them:  Why solicit ye, Moses and Aaron, the people from their works and labor?  Go ye unto your work.  Pharaoh also said:  The people is much, see how they grow and multiply, and yet much more shall do if they rested from their labor.  Therefore he commanded the same day to the prefects and masters of their works saying:  In no wise give no more chaff to the people for to make loam and clay, but let them go and gather stubble, and make them do as much labor as they did tofore, and lessen it nothing.  They do now but cry:  Let us go and make sacrifice to our God, let them be oppressed by labor and exercised that they attend not to leasings.  Then the prefects and masters of their work said to them that Pharaoh had commanded to give them no chaff, but they should go and gather such as they might find, and that their work should not therefore be minished.  Then the children were disperpled for to gather chaff, and their masters awaited on them and bade them:  Make an end of your work as ye were wont to do when that chaff was delivered to you.  And thus they were put to more affliction, and would make them to make as many tiles as they did tofore.  Then the upperest of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh and complained saying:  Why puttest thou thy servants to such affliction?  He said to them:  Ye be so idle that ye say ye will go and sacrifice to your God; ye shall have no chaff given to you, yet ye shall work your customable work and gather your chaff also.

Then the eldest and the upperest among the Hebrews went to Moses and Aaron and said:  What have ye done? ye have so done that ye have made our odor to stink in the sight of Pharaoh, and have encouraged him to slay us.  Then Moses counselled with our Lord how he should do, and said:  Lord, why hast thou sent me hither?  For, sith I have spoken to Pharaoh in thy name, he hath put thy people to more affliction than they had tofore, and thou hast not delivered them.  Our Lord said to Moses:  Now thou shalt see what I shall do to Pharaoh.  By strong hand he shall let you go, and in a boistous he shall cast you from his land.