Exodus 5:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye 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

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.

Exodus 5:18

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

Exodus 5:8

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

John 6:27

Work not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.