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

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

Notwithstanding lay upon them the number of brick, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they cry, saying, Let us go to offer sacrifice unto our God.

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Footnotes

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

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