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Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people in the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.”[a]

Pharaoh Increases the Israelis’ Work

That day Pharaoh ordered the taskmasters of the people and their officials, “You’re no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past.[b] They must gather straw for themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:5 Lit. from their burdens
  2. Exodus 5:7 Lit. like yesterday and the day before