Exodus 5:7
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues.
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19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
19Yet there is both straw and prouender for our asses, and there is bread and wine also for me and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy seruants: there is no want of any thing.
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Exodus 5:7
The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Sense 1: The dry stalks of grain, used for fodder or brickmaking. Sense 2: Figuratively, something weak, insubstantial, or easily trampled.
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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
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A block of chiefly clay earth, formed, dried, and burned for building.
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heretofore
Times before the present; formerly.
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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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To collect, bring together, or assemble.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taske-masters of the people, and their officers, saying;
7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
7Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues.
Selected passage8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
8And the tale of the brickes which they did make heretofore, you shall lay vpon them: you shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us goe and sacrifice to our God.