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11 Go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work quotas won’t be reduced at all.’”[a] 12 So the people scattered throughout the entire land of Egypt to collect stubble[b] for straw.

13 The taskmasters pressured them by saying, “Finish your work—each day’s quota[c]—just as when you were given straw.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:11 Lit. from your labor
  2. Exodus 5:12 I.e. the stalks left in the field after grain is harvested
  3. Exodus 5:13 Lit. matter
  4. Exodus 5:13 Lit. when there was straw