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Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
Exodus 5:11 · World English Bible
Exodus 5:11 in other translations
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
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In context
8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
10 The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
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