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Exodus 5:18

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18 And now go -- work! and straw shall not be given you, and ye shall deliver the measure of bricks.

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Arcana Coelestia # 7109

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7109. 'And you have made them rest from their burdens' means that they have not molested them enough. This is clear from the meaning of 'burdens' as molestations by falsities, and the resulting conflicts, dealt with in 6757, 7104, 7105; therefore 'making them rest from their burdens means that they have not molested them enough.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 7104

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7104. 'Why, O Moses and Aaron, do you draw the people away from their work?' means that their Divine Law and doctrinal teachings must not exempt them from hardship. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Lord in respect of the Divine Law, dealt with in 6723, 6752; from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of teachings derived from that Law, dealt with in 6998, 7009; from the meaning of 'drawing away' as exempting; and from the meaning of 'work' as hardship, for that work was hard labour, also 'burdens', as Pharaoh went on to speak of it, and so was hardship because of conflicts, meant by work' and 'burdens' in the internal sense.

  
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