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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.’ 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.

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But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota.(A) They are lazy;(B) that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’(C) Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”

10 Then the slave drivers(D) and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

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