Exodus 5:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Judges 19:19

We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”

Genesis 24:25

She added, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”

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 which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’