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Look, there are many of your people in the land, and you are stopping them from their work.”

Making Bricks without Straw

That same day Pharaoh sent this order to the Egyptian slave drivers and the Israelite foremen: “Do not supply any more straw for making bricks. Make the people get it themselves!

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Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous,(A) and you are stopping them from working.”

That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers(B) and overseers in charge of the people: “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks;(C) let them go and gather their own straw.

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