KJV ORIGINAL
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ 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
This verse comes after Moses asked Pharaoh to let the Israelites go worship God, which angered Pharaoh. As punishment, Pharaoh made their slavery even harder by forcing them to gather their own straw (needed to make bricks) while maintaining the same daily brick production requirements. This was a deliberate attempt to crush their spirits and make them blame Moses for their increased suffering.
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