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15 Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! You are unjust to your own people.”[a] 17 He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

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  1. Exodus 5:16 Gk Compare Syr Vg: Heb beaten, and the sin of your people

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