Exodus 5:9

Contemporary English Version 1995

Make them work so hard that they won't have time to listen to these lies.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:6

Don't let anyone trick you with foolish talk. God punishes everyone who disobeys him and says foolish things.

Malachi 3:14

Here is what you have said: “It's foolish to serve the Lord God All-Powerful. What do we get for obeying God and from going around looking sad?

Zechariah 1:6

But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “Lord All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”

Jeremiah 43:2

But Azariah, Johanan and some other arrogant men said to me, “You're lying! The Lord didn't tell you to say that we shouldn't go to Egypt.

Job 16:3

So why don't you keep quiet? What's bothering you?

2 Kings 18:20

Does he think he can plan and win a war with nothing but words? Who is going to help him, now that he has turned against the king of Assyria?

Exodus 5:8

but they must make the same number of bricks as before. They are lazy, or else they would not beg me to let them go and sacrifice to their God.

Exodus 5:10

The slave bosses and the men in charge of the slaves went out and told them, “The king says he will not give you any more straw.