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.
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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.
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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 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 5:14
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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