Exodus 5:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Exodus 5:16

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.”

Exodus 5:18

Get back to work! You won't be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.”

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.

Matthew 26:8

But when his disciples saw this, they became angry and complained, “Why such a waste?

John 6:27

Don't work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”