They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.)
Exodus 5:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, “Make bricks! ” Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible No straw is supplied to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look at how your servants are being beaten! Your own people are to blame!” Catholic Public Domain Version Straw is not given to us, and yet the same amount of bricks is commanded. So we, your servants, are cut up by scourging, and injustice is done against your people." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before. Behold, we thy servants are beaten with whips; and thy people is unjustly dealt withal. |
They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.)
and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’
So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: ‘Why are you treating your servants this way?
But he said, ‘You are lazy. Lazy! That is why you are saying, “Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.”
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.