Exodus 5:11 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

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

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

Go and find straw wherever you can get it, but you still have to make just as many bricks as before.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Pharaoh is telling the Israelite slaves they must now gather their own materials while still meeting the same impossible work quotas.

📚 Historical Context

In the book of Exodus, the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt and forced to make bricks as part of their labor for Pharaoh. When Moses and Aaron approached Pharaoh to request freedom for the people to worship God, he responded by increasing their burdens, refusing to provide straw for the bricks while demanding the same production quotas. This verse specifically highlights Pharaoh's cruel order that the Israelites gather their own straw without reducing their workload, aiming to break their spirits.

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You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as you have done before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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