OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 5:16

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16

No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

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Verse 16. Withal. Hebrew “the fault is in thy own people,” who require impossibilities. Calmet.—They throw the blame upon the king’s officers, ( Menochius.) though it was his own. Bible.

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