Exodus 5:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The king of Egypt said to Moses and Aaron, Why do you take the people from their jobs? Get to your burdens!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

Common English Bible

⁴ The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you making the people slack off from their work? Do the hard work yourselves!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The king of Egypt said to them: "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, distract the people from their works? Go back to your burdens."

Exodus 5:4 Cross References

Exodus 1:11

3 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

Exodus 2:11

3 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarreling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

Exodus 6:5

And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the work prison of the Egyptians.

Jeremiah 38:4

2 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old rags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the cords: and Jeremias did so.

Amos 7:10

These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Luke 23:2

0 And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly accusing him.

Acts 24:5

3 Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now accuse me.