<p class="bodytext">So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Thus says Pharaoh: &#8216;I am not giving<n id="2" /> you straw.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials<n id="2" /> over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.