Exodus 5:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But [Pharaoh] said, You are idle, lazy and idle! That is why you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Pharaoh replied, “You are lazy bums, nothing but lazy bums. That’s why you say, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to the LORD.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And he said: "You are idle. And for this reason you say, 'We shall go and sacrifice to the Lord.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 5:17 Cross References

Exodus 5:16

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.”

Exodus 5:18

Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”

Exodus 5:8

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, “Why this waste?

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”