Exodus 5:17
But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
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Exodus 5:17
But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
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Exodus 5:7
“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
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Exodus 5:10
The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
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Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
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Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
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Exodus 5:13
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
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Exodus 5:14
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
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