Exodus 5:7
“Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues.”
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Exodus 5:7 Context
5And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, & you make them rest from their burdens. 6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taske-masters of the people, and their officers, saying; 7Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues. 8And the tale of the brickes which they did make heretofore, you shall lay vpon them: you shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us goe and sacrifice to our God. 9Let there more worke be layde vpon the men, that they may labour therein, and let them not regard vaine wordes.
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Other Translations for Exodus 5:7
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- King James Version
"You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Darby Bible
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Webster's Bible
You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- World English Bible
`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;
- Youngs Literal Bible
'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Exodus 5:7
5:7 Straw - To mix with the clay, or to burn the brick with.