Exodus 5:6-14
Bricks and Straw

6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

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7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish [ought] thereof: for they [be] idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our God.

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9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

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10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

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11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

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12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

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13 And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

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