Exodus 5:7
Good News Translation
"Stop giving the people straw for making bricks. Make them go and find it for themselves.

Contemporary English Version
Don't give the slaves any more straw to put in their bricks. Force them to find their own straw wherever they can,

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.

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You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.

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Context
Bricks and Straw
6Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying: 7You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.8And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.…
Cross References
Genesis 11:3
And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

Exodus 5:6
Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:

Exodus 5:8
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Additional Translations
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Ye shall no longer give straw to the people for brick-making as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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

'Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves;
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