Exodus 5:17

Easy To Read Version

Pharaoh answered, “You are lazy. You don’t want to work. That is why you ask me to let you go. And that is why you want to leave here and make sacrifices [48] to the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 5:16

You won’t give us any straw, but you tell us to make as many bricks as before. And now our masters are beating us. Your people are wrong for doing this.”

Exodus 5:18

Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw! And you must still make as many bricks as you did before!”

Exodus 5:8

But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. They have become lazy. That is why they are asking me to let them go. They don’t have enough work to do. That is why they asked me to let them make sacrifices [44] to their God.

Matthew 26:8

The followers saw the woman do this and became upset at the woman. The followers asked, “Why waste that perfume?

John 6:27

Earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good always and gives you life forever. The Son of Man {\cf2\super [87]} will give you that food. God the Father showed that he is with the Son of Man.”