Exodus 5:8

Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.

Psalm 106:41

He handed them over to other nations, and those who hated them ruled them.

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And 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.

Ye shall lay

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Ye shall lay

Psalm 106:41
He handed them over to other nations, and those who hated them ruled them.