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## Exodus 5:17 in Context (Verses 14–20 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/exodus/5/14) And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, *and* demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
 
 [15 ](/kjv/exodus/5/15) ¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
 
 [16 ](/kjv/exodus/5/16) There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants *are* beaten; but the fault *is* in thine own people.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/exodus/5/17) But he said, Ye *are* idle, *ye are* idle: therefore ye say, Let us go *and* do sacrifice to the LORD.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/exodus/5/18) Go therefore now, *and* work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/exodus/5/19) And the officers of the children of Israel did see *that* they *were* in evil *case*, after it was said, Ye shall not minish *ought* from your bricks of your daily task.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/exodus/5/20) ¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
 
[Exodus 4](/kjv/exodus/4) [Exodus 6](/kjv/exodus/6)

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