Brickmaking without straw, 1250 BCE

Exodus 5:18:

Pharaoh:  “So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

Wall painting from the Tomb of Rekhmire, 15^th Century BC

Papyrus Anastasi IV, 1250 BC:      

“. . . and there are neither men to make bricks nor straw.”

British Museum

The Leather Scroll , Quota for Brick-making, 1274BC:

“Yupa, son of Urhiya, (quota of ) 2000 bricks —1630 arrived, deficit 370”

The Louvre

Exodus 2:11

            “He (Moses) saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.”

Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, Tomb of Rekhmire, 15^th Century BCE