Exodus 5:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11

He 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 5:17

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.

Exodus 5:19

The men knew they were in deep trouble when they were ordered to make the same number of bricks each day.

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 18:18

It is his father who will die for cheating and robbing and doing evil.