Exodus 5:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses.

Exodus 5:17

But he said, *You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

Exodus 5:19

The officers of the children of Yisra'el saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, *You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!*

Exodus 5:7

*You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5:9

Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words.*