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Exodus 5:13

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And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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  1. Exodus 5:11

    Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

  2. Exodus 5:12

    So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

  3. Exodus 5:14

    And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

  4. Exodus 5:15

    Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

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