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Exodus 5:15-21. Hope turns to anger. Outside the entrance of the Egyptian palace, exhausted Hebrew foremen confront Moses and Aaron after their rejected appeal. Two distressed foremen in dusty worn tan linen foreground left, one gesturing with an open hand, the other holding his tired upper arm, no wounds or weapons. Moses and Aaron at right listen soberly: Moses tall white hair and long beard in crimson with staff; Aaron slightly shorter with short gray curls and rounded beard in dusty indigo. Match references exactly and keep foremen visually distinct from both. Palace plaster wall and simple Egyptian painted gate behind, afternoon shadows. Pharaoh is NOT outside in this scene. Emotion is wounded anger and exhaustion, no assault, no magical effects or lettering. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 5:15-21

Hope turns to anger

Before Pharaoh · Exodus 5

Story guide: The foremen protest their treatment and confront Moses and Aaron.

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15Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you do this to your servants?”

16No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.

17But he said, “You are idle, idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’”

18So now, go, work; but straw will not be given to you, yet you must deliver the required number of bricks.

19Then the officers of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You must not reduce the number of your bricks, the daily quota each day.”

20They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing to meet them when they came out from Pharaoh.

21And they said to them, “May Yahweh look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, putting a sword in their hand to kill us.”

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