“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.

Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake’s food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” says the Lord.