Exodus 5:7
Good News Translation
"Stop giving the people straw for making bricks. Make them go and find it for themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
“You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Contemporary English Version
Don't give the slaves any more straw to put in their bricks. Force them to find their own straw wherever they can,

New American Bible
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for their brickmaking as before. Let them go and gather their own straw!

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.

straw.

Context
Bricks and Straw
6Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying: 7You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.8And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.…
Cross References
Genesis 11:3
And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

Exodus 5:6
Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:

Exodus 5:8
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Exodus 5:6
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