Exodus 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! But the fault is with you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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.

Exodus 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 11:3

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “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 scorpions.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Exodus 5:17

He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Ezekiel 16:4

As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in cloths.