Exodus 5:17

“No, you're just lazy, lazy people!” Pharaoh replied. “That's why you keep on asking, ‘Please let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.’

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In The King James Version

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

In Context

16You don't give us any straw but your slave drivers demand that we make bricks, and they beat us! Your people are treating us badly!”

18Now get out of here and go back to work! You won't be given any straw but you'll still have to produce the full quota of bricks!”

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Cross References

Exodus 5:8But still make them produce the same quantity of bricks as before. They're lazy people—that's why they're calling out, asking, ‘Please let us go and offer sacrifices to our god.’

John 6:27Don't be preoccupied about food that doesn't last, but concentrate on the lasting food of eternal life which the Son of man will give you, for God the Father has placed his seal of approval on him.”

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:16-23

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 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 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord . 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19 And the officers of… Read the whole commentary →

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