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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw.
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And the task-masters hastened [them], saying, Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's task-masters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore?
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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dealest thou thus with thy servants?
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There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thy own people.
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But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go, [and] do sacrifice to the LORD.
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Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.
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And the officers of the children of Israel saw [that] they [were] in evil [case], after it was said, Ye shall not diminish [aught] from your bricks of your daily task.
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And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
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And they said to them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to slay us.