Exodus 5:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

And you shall impose upon them the same quota of bricks that they made before. Neither will you lessen anything, for they are idle, and therefore they cry out, saying: 'We shall go and sacrifice to our God.'

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

And he helped the poor out of destitution, and he stationed families like sheep.

Exodus 1:11

And so he set over them masters of the works, in order to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharaoh the cities of the tabernacles: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 5:17

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

Exodus 5:19

And the first among the sons of Israel saw themselves in a crisis, because it was said to them, "Nothing at all will be lessened from the bricks throughout each day."

Exodus 5:7

"You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.

Exodus 5:9

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