Exodus 5:7

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Judges 19:19

We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

Genesis 24:25

She added, “We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night.”

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.

Exodus 5:6

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

Exodus 5:8

But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’