Exodus 5

5 ¹After dat, Moses and Aaron waka go meet Pharaoh, dem tell am say, "Na dis be wetin our Papa of Israel talk: Make you let my people go, so dem fit hold feast for me for di wilderness."

²Pharaoh answer say, "Who be God, wey I go obey im voice come let Israel go? I no know God, and I no go let Israel go."

³Dem talk say, "Our Papa don meet us. Abeg make we waka three-day journey enter di wilderness go sacrifice give our Papa, if not e fit strike us with plague or with sword."

⁴But di king of Egypt tell dem say, "Moses and Aaron, why una dey pull di people comot from dia work? Comot go do una labour!" ⁵Pharaoh talk say, "Look am, di people of di land don plenty now, and una wan make dem stop work!"

⁶Dat same day, Pharaoh command di slave-drivers and di foremen wey dey over di people say: ⁷"No give di people straw for brick like before again. Make dem go gather straw by dem-self.

⁸But di same number of brick wey dem dey make before, na im make dem still make; no reduce am. Dem be lazy people; na why dem dey cry say, 'Make we go sacrifice give our God.' ⁹Make di work hard pass for di men, so dem go dey busy with am and no gree hear lie-lie talk."

¹⁰So di slave-drivers and di foremen comot go tell di people say, "Pharaoh talk say: 'I no go give una straw again.' ¹¹Go find una own straw for anywhere una fit see am—but una work no go reduce even small.'" ¹²So di people scatter go every corner of di land of Egypt, dey gather stubble to take make straw. ¹³Di slave-drivers dey press dem well well say: "Finish una work for di day, di same amount like wen una get straw." ¹⁴Dem beat di Israel foremen wey Pharaoh slave-drivers put over di people, dem dey ask dem say, "Wetin make una no finish di number of brick wey una suppose make, yesterday and today, like before?"

¹⁵So di Israel foremen come cry out to Pharaoh say, "Why you dey treat us wey be your servant like dis? ¹⁶Dem no dey give us wey be your servant any straw, but dem still dey tell us, 'Make brick!' Look am, dem dey beat us wey be your servant, but na your own people dey do wrong."

¹⁷Pharaoh answer say, "Lazy people! Una be lazy people! Na why una dey talk say, 'Make we go sacrifice give God.' ¹⁸So now, go, go work. Nobody go give una straw, but una still must deliver di full number of brick."

¹⁹Di Israel foremen see say trouble don land dem wen dem tell dem say, "No reduce di number of brick wey una suppose make for di day." ²⁰Wen dem comot from Pharaoh, dem meet Moses and Aaron wey dey wait to see dem, ²¹and dem tell dem say, "Make our Papa look una and judge, because una don make us smell bad for Pharaoh and im officials front, una don put sword for dia hand to take kill us."

²²Then Moses go back to our Papa, e talk say, "My Oga Papa, why you bring trouble come dis people? Na why you send me at all?

²³Since wen I go meet Pharaoh to talk for your name, e don do dis people bad, and you never rescue your people at all."