Exodus 5:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ You shall no more give the people straw to make brick; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Common English Bible

⁷ “Don’t supply the people with the straw they need to make bricks like you did before. Let them go out and gather the straw for themselves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ "You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.

Exodus 5:7 Cross References

Genesis 11:3

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

Genesis 24:25

She added, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”

Exodus 5:6

The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,

Exodus 5:8

But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

Judges 19:19

We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”