Exodus 5:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no attention to lying words.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.

Common English Bible

⁹ Make the men’s work so hard that it’s all they can do, and they can’t focus on these empty lies.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.

Exodus 5:9 Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?

Job 16:3

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Exodus 5:10

So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5:8

But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there’;

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.