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Objects

bricks

Bricks built Babel and Israel's store-cities; in Exodus 5 Pharaoh demands the same brick quota after cutting off the supply of straw.

Category

Objects

First mention

Genesis 11:3

Tags

3

Genesis 11Exodus 1, 5Forced labour

Scripture references

  • Genesis 11:3

    Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire. For stone they used bricks...

  • Exodus 1:14

    making their lives miserable with hard labour: with digging clay, making bricks, doing various kinds of field -- work -- all sorts of labour that they imposed on them without mercy.

  • Exodus 5:7

    'Do not go on providing the people with straw for brickmaking as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

  • Exodus 5:8

    But you will exact the same quantity of bricks from them as before, not reducing it at all, since they are lazy, and that is why their cry is, "Let us go and sacrifice to our God."

  • Exodus 5:18

    Get back to your work at once. You will not be provided with straw; all the same, you will deliver the quota of bricks.'