Exodus 5:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No one brings us any straw, but we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.

1 Kings 12:14

He spoke bluntly and told them exactly what his own advisers had suggested: “My father made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”

Exodus 5:15

Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and said, “Why are you treating us like this?

Exodus 5:17

The king replied, “You are lazy—nothing but lazy! That's why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to your LORD.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked again and saw people being ill-treated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who ill-treated them were powerful.

Ezekiel 16:4

When you were born, no one cut you loose from your mother or washed your body. No one rubbed your skin with salt and olive oil, and wrapped you in warm blankets.