Exodus 5:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

1 Kings 12:14

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

Exodus 5:15

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

Exodus 5:17

But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ezekiel 16:4

As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.