Exodus 5:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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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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 one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Genesis 24:25

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

Exodus 5:6

And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5:8

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Judges 19:19

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.