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Exodus 5:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 5:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! But the fault is with you.”[a] 17 He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’(A) 18 Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”
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- 5.16 Cn: MT but the fault of your people
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