Exodus 5:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: For they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

Exodus 5:7

You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.

Exodus 5:9

Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.

Exodus 5:17

And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 5:19

And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.