Exodus 5:18

Now 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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In The King James Version

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

In Context

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.’

19The Israelite supervisors realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily production of bricks.”

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11My father placed a heavy burden on you, and I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips; I will punish you with scorpions.’”

Ezekiel 18:18But his father will die for his own sins, because he exploited others, robbed his relatives, and did wrong to his own people.

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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