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Exodus 5:7
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
King James Version
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
World English Bible
“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
American Standard Version
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Geneva Bible 1599
Ye shall giue the people no more strawe, to make bricke (as in time past) but let them goe and gather them strawe them selues:
Darby Translation
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Young's Literal Translation
'Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore — they go and have gathered straw for themselves;
Bible in Basic English
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.
6That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
8But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
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