Exodus chapter 5

After reading chapter 5:

*Moses and Aaron go to Pharoah and tell him Yahweh wants his people to go to the desert and have a big party for him. Pharoah doesn't see why he should obey Yahweh, a God of whom he has never heard. They tell Pharoah they must go or bad things might happen. Pharoah tells them to stop wasting time and get back to work. Then, he arranges for the Hebrews' labor to be even more difficult so they will stop paying attention to Moses. The Israelite foremen complain to Pharoah about the harsh treatment. Pharoah says it is because they are lazy and gives them even more work. Then the people blame Moses and Aaron for their troubles. Moses goes back to Yahweh and complains about the situation.

*Today, the same question that Pharoah asks is still relevant. "Who is Yahweh that I should obey him?" Why should I take the word of a book written about 2,500 years ago that tells me a man named Moses once talked to Yahweh in the desert about 1,000 years before that? What does that have to do with me? My answer is: nothing.