Exo 5:7
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
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She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man {which is} with thy servants: {there is} no want of any thing.
[A Song of degrees.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: {Many...: or, Much}
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour} {burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning}
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, {was} with rigour.
Now I know that the LORD {is} greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly {he was} above them.
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as {it is} this day.