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An overseer bars workers from the stored straw.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Exodus 5:7

Straw Withheld

Before Pharaoh · Exodus 5

Story guide: Pharaoh ends the supply of straw and orders the people to gather their own.

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7You shall no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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