Exodus 5:7

New King James Version

“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Cross References

Judges 19:19

although we have both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and bread and wine for myself, for your female servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything.”

Genesis 24:25

Moreover she said to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge.”

Genesis 11:3

Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

Exodus 5:6

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

Exodus 5:8

And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’