Exodus 5:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

Common English Bible

⁵ Pharaoh continued, “The land’s people are now numerous. Yet you want them to stop their hard work?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And Pharaoh said: "The people of the land are many. You see that the turmoil has increased: how much more if you give them rest from the works?"

Exodus 5:5 Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

9 And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.

2 Chronicles 10:11

6 And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David, feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their dwellings.

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?

Proverbs 14:28

5 A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.