Pharaoh Intensifies Israel's Labor

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Therefore Pharaoh gaue commandement the same day vnto the taskemasters of the people, and to their officers, saying,

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Ye shall giue the people no more strawe, to make bricke ( as in time past) but let them goe and gather them strawe them selues:

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Notwithstanding lay vpon them the nober of bricke, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they crie, saying, Let vs go to offer sacrifice vnto our God.

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Lay more worke vpon the men, and cause them to do it, and let the not regard vaine words.

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Then went the taskemasters of the people and their officers out, and tolde the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will giue you no more strawe.

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Goe your selues, get you strawe where yee can finde it, yet shall nothing of your labour bee diminished.

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Then were the people scattered abroade throughout all the land of Egypt, for to gather stubble in steade of strawe.

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And the taskemasters hasted them, saying, Finish your dayes worke euery dayes taske, as ye did when ye had strawe.

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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs taskemasters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske in making bricke yesterday and to daye, as in times past?

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