Exodus 5:7

A Conservative Version

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as formerly. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Cross References

Judges 19:19

Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man who is with thy servants. There is no want of anything.

Genesis 24:25

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

Genesis 11:3

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

Exodus 5:6

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

Exodus 5:8

And the number of the bricks, which they made formerly, ye shall lay upon them. Ye shall not diminish any of it. For they are idle, therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.