^21 (A)And they said to them, “Let the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made ^[a]us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

⁹ So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^(A)but they did not heed Moses, because of ^(B)anguish^[a] of spirit and cruel bondage.