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Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
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The Cruelty of the Command
Commentators emphasize the calculated cruelty of Pharaoh's command. The Israelites were now required to source their own straw, a time-consuming task, yet their daily brick quota remained unchanged. Scholars like John Gill point out that this made their work impossible, designed to crush them under the weight of unjust labor and punish them for their request to worship God.
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Exodus
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Reformed Baptist
Go you, get you straw, where you can find it Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but …
Presbyterian
The Egyptian taskmasters were very severe. See what need we have to pray that we may be delivered from wicked men. The foremen justly complained to…
