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Exodus 5:15
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

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Exodus 5:16
They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

Exodus 5:17
But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

Exodus 5:18
Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

Exodus 5:19
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

Exodus 5:20
And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:

Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

Job 39:7
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

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Exodus 5:10
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

Exodus 5:12
So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

Exodus 5:13
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

Exodus 5:14
And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

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Exodus 5:6
The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,

Exodus 5:7
Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

Exodus 5:8
But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Exodus 5:9
Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

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Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

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