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"aIs this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."
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Exodus 6:9
Exodus 6
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So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on aaccount of their despondency and cruel bondage.