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Then sayde the kinge of Egipte vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people fro their worke, gett you vnto youre laboure.
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And Pharao sayde further more: beholde, there is moch people in the londe, and ye make them playe and let their worke stonde.
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And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskemasters ouer the people and vnto the officers saynge:
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se that ye geue the people no moare strawe to make brycke with all as ye dyd in tyme passed: let them goo and gather them strawe them selues,
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and the nombre of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, laye vnto their charges also, and minysh nothinge therof. For they be ydill ad therfore crye saynge: let vs goo and do sacrifice vnto oure God.
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They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they maye laboure theryn, and than will they not turne them selues to false wordes.
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Than went the taskemasters of the people and the officers out and tolde the people saynge: thus sayeth Pharao: I will geue you no moare strawe,
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but goo youre selues ad gather you strawe where ye can fynde it, yet shall none of youre laboure be minyshed.
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Than the people scatered abrode thorowe out all the lande of Egipte for to gather them stubyll to be in stead of strawe.
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And the taskemasters hastied the forward sayng: fulfill youre werke daye by daye, eue as when strawe was geuen you.
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And the officers of the childern of Israel which Pharaos taskmasters had sett ouer them, were beaten. And it was sayde vnto them: wherfore haue ye not fulfilled youre taske in makinge brycke, both yesterdaye and to daye, as well as in tymes past.