Exodus 5:10 meaning and explanation

So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.

Exodus 5:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Pharaoh has just rejected Moses and Aaron's request to let Israel worship in the wilderness, and he answers by accusing the people of laziness and making their labor heavier. Here his officers carry that order to the Israelites: no more straw will be supplied for brickmaking, though the quota stays the same.

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