Keluaran 5
1 Kemudian Musa dan Harun pergi menghadap raja Mesir dan berkata, "Begini perintah TUHAN, Allah Israel, 'Izinkanlah bangsa-Ku pergi supaya mereka dapat beribadat kepada-Ku di padang gurun.'"
Then Aaron and Moses/I went to the king and [one of them/us] said, “Yahweh God, whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says this [to you]: ‘Let my people go to the desert, in order that they may have a feast to [honor] me!’”
2 "Siapakah TUHAN itu?" tanya raja. "Mengapa aku harus mempedulikan Dia dan mengizinkan bangsa Israel pergi? Aku tidak kenal TUHAN itu, dan orang Israel tidak kuizinkan pergi."
But the king said, “Who is Yahweh? Why should I pay attention to what he says and let the Israeli [people] [MTY] go? I do not know Yahweh! And furthermore, I will not let the Israeli [people] go!”
3 Musa dan Harun berkata, "Allah orang Ibrani sudah menampakkan diri kepada kami. Izinkanlah kami pergi ke padang gurun sejauh tiga hari perjalanan untuk mempersembahkan kurban kepada TUHAN, Allah kami. Kalau kami tidak melakukan itu, kami akan dibunuhnya dengan penyakit atau perang."
They/we replied, “Yahweh God, the one we Hebrews [worship], has (revealed himself/appeared) to us [and told us what to tell you]. So we ask you to [please] let us go on a three day journey into the desert. We must offer sacrifices to Yahweh God [there]. [If we do] not do that, he will cause us to die [IDM] from diseases or from attacks [by our enemies] [MTY].”
4 Kata raja kepada Musa dan Harun, "Mengapa kamu membuat orang-orang itu melalaikan pekerjaan mereka? Suruhlah budak-budak itu bekerja!
But the king of Egypt said to them/us, “Moses and Aaron, (stop trying to keep the Israeli people from working/why are you preventing the Israeli people from working?) [RHQ] [Tell those slaves] to return to work!”
5 Orang-orang itu sudah terlalu banyak jumlahnya. Dan sekarang kamu mau supaya mereka berhenti bekerja!"
The king also said, “Listen [to me! You] people [who now live] in this land are now [more] numerous, and you want them [to stop working and] rest!”
6 Hari itu juga para pengawas bangsa Mesir dan mandor-mandor bangsa Israel mendapat perintah dari raja,
That same day the king commanded the Egyptian slave bosses and the [Israeli] men supervising the slaves,
7 "Jangan lagi memberi jerami kepada bangsa itu untuk membuat batu bata. Biarlah mereka pergi mencarinya sendiri.
“Do not continue to give the [Israeli] people straw for making bricks, as you have done previously. Make them go [into the fields] and gather straw for themselves.
8 Tetapi suruhlah mereka membuat batu bata tidak kurang jumlahnya dari yang sudah-sudah. Mereka mau bermalas-malas saja; itulah sebabnya mereka terus mengomel supaya diizinkan pergi untuk mempersembahkan kurban kepada Allah mereka.
But require them to make the same number of bricks that they did before. Do not decrease the number at all. They (are lazy/do not have enough work to do). That is the reason they are asking me to let them go [into the desert] to offer sacrifices to their god.
9 Paksakan orang-orang itu bekerja lebih keras, supaya mereka sibuk dengan pekerjaan dan tidak punya waktu untuk mendengarkan cerita-cerita bohong."
Force the men to work harder, so that they will not [have time] to listen to lies [from their leaders]!”
10 Para pengawas bangsa Mesir dan mandor-mandor Israel itu keluar lalu berkata kepada orang-orang Israel, "Raja memerintahkan supaya kamu tidak lagi diberi jerami.
So the slave bosses and supervisors of the slaves went to where the [Israeli] people were and said to them, “The king has said that he will no longer give you any straw.
11 Kamu harus mencari sendiri di mana saja, tetapi ingat, batu bata yang kamu buat tak boleh kurang dari yang sudah-sudah."
[So] you yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it. But you must still keep working to make the same number of bricks as before.” [LIT]
12 Maka pergilah orang Israel menjelajahi seluruh tanah Mesir untuk mengumpulkan jerami.
So the Israeli people went all over Egypt to find straw.
13 Para pengawas terus mendesak supaya setiap hari mereka menghasilkan batu bata yang sama banyaknya seperti waktu mereka diberi jerami.
The slave bosses kept telling them insistently, “Finish the work you are required to do each day, [making the same amount of bricks] as you did [before, when we gave you] straw!”
14 Para pengawas itu memukul mandor-mandor Israel yang ditugaskan mengawasi pekerjaan. Mereka bertanya, "Mengapa sekarang bangsamu tidak menghasilkan batu bata yang sama banyaknya seperti dahulu?"
[When they were not able to do that], the slave bosses had the [Israeli supervisors] beaten [with sticks], and they asked them, “Why have [all the men you are supervising] not been able to make [the same number] of bricks today/now as [they did] before [RHQ]?”
15 Lalu mandor-mandor Israel pergi menghadap raja dan mengeluh, "Mengapa Baginda berbuat begini kepada kami?
Then the Israeli supervisors went to the king and complained, saying “[Your Majesty], why are you treating us this way?
16 Kami tidak diberi jerami, tetapi dipaksa membuat batu bata! Sekarang kami dipukuli padahal pegawai-pegawai Bagindalah yang bersalah!"
[Now] they are not giving us any straw [for making bricks], but they keep commanding us to make bricks. And now sometimes they beat us. But it is the fault of your own slave bosses [that we cannot make as many bricks as before]!”
17 Raja menjawab, "Kamu memang malas dan tidak mau bekerja. Itulah sebabnya kamu minta izin kepadaku untuk pergi mempersembahkan kurban kepada Tuhanmu.
But the king said, “You are lazy and do not [want to] work! That is why you keep saying, ‘Allow us to go [to the desert] and offer sacrifices to Yahweh.’
18 Pergilah bekerja lagi. Jerami tidak akan diberikan kepadamu, tetapi kamu tetap harus membuat batu bata yang sama banyaknya."
So go and get back to work! [We] are not going to give you any straw, but you must keep making the same number of bricks!”
19 Mandor-mandor itu sadar bahwa mereka dalam kesulitan ketika diberitahukan bahwa orang-orang Israel harus menghasilkan batu bata yang tetap sama banyaknya seperti yang sudah-sudah.
The Israeli supervisors realized that they were in a difficult situation, because they had been told, “We are not going to decrease the number of bricks [you must make] each day.”
20 Ketika mereka keluar dari istana, mereka bertemu dengan Musa dan Harun yang sedang menunggu mereka.
As they left the king’s [palace], they met Aaron and Moses/me, who were waiting for them [there].
21 Kata mandor-mandor itu, "TUHAN tahu perbuatanmu! Ia akan menghukum kamu! Kamulah yang menyebabkan kami dibenci oleh raja dan para pegawainya, sehingga mereka mau membunuh kami."
They said to Aaron and Moses/me, “Yahweh has seen [what] you two [have done] He will punish you [MTY], because you have caused the king and his officials to despise us! You have given them an excuse [MTY] to kill us!”
22 Lalu Musa menghadap TUHAN lagi dan berkata, "Tuhan, mengapa bangsa Israel Kauperlakukan seburuk itu? Mengapa Engkau mengutus saya ke sini?
Moses/I left them and prayed to Yahweh again, saying, “O Yahweh, why have you caused all these evil things to happen to your people [RHQ]? And why did you send me [here] [RHQ]?
23 Sejak saya menghadap raja dan berbicara atas nama-Mu, ia mulai menganiaya bangsa ini. Dan Engkau tidak berbuat apa-apa untuk menolong mereka."
Ever since I went to the king and told him what you told me to say [MTY], he has treated your people very cruelly, and you have not done anything to help/rescue them!”
