Exodus 5:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, “Make bricks! ” Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.’

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen  for mortar.)

Exodus 5:15

So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: ‘Why are you treating your servants this way?

Exodus 5:17

But he said, ‘You are lazy. Lazy! That is why you are saying, “Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.”

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.  Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

Ezekiel 16:4

As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born,  and you weren’t washed clean  with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.