Exodus 5:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

Cross References

Judges 19:19

although there’s straw and feed for the donkeys, and I have bread and wine for me, my concubine, and the servant  with us. There is nothing we lack.’

Genesis 24:25

She also said to him, ‘We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.’

Genesis 11:3

They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen  for mortar.)

Exodus 5:6

That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers  of the people as well as their foremen,

Exodus 5:8

But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy #– #that is why they are crying out,  “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”