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Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

…even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”

Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.