11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Pharaoh’s orders are here put in execution; straw is denied, and yet the work not diminished. 1. The Egyptian task-masters were very severe. Pharaoh having decreed unrighteous decrees, the task-masters were ready to write the grievousness that he had prescribed, Isa. 10:1. Cruel princes will never want cruel instruments to be employed under them, who will justify them in that which is most unreaso…
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