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Exodus 5:6-9
The Message
Exodus 5:6-9
The Message
6-9 Pharaoh took immediate action. He sent down orders to the slave-drivers and their underlings: “Don’t provide straw for the people for making bricks as you have been doing. Make them get their own straw. And make them produce the same number of bricks—no reduction in their daily quotas! They’re getting lazy. They’re going around saying, ‘Give us time off so we can worship our God.’ Crack down on them. That’ll cure them of their whining, their god-fantasies.”
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Exodus 5:6-9
New International Version
Exodus 5:6-9
New International Version
6 That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers(A) and overseers in charge of the people: 7 “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks;(B) let them go and gather their own straw. 8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota.(C) They are lazy;(D) that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’(E) 9 Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”
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