Pharaoh said furthermore, Behold, much people is now in the land, and ye [a]make them leave their burdens.

Therefore Pharaoh gave commandment the same day unto the taskmasters of the people, and to their [b]officers, saying,

Ye shall give the people no more straw, to make brick ([c]as in time past) but let them go and gather them straw themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:5 As though ye would rebel.
  2. Exodus 5:6 Which were of the Israelites, and had charge to see them do their work.
  3. Exodus 5:7 Hebrew, yesterday and ere yesterday.

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