Exodus 5:16

Modern English Version

There is no straw being given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make brick.’ And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

They said to each other, “Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

1 Kings 12:14

and instead spoke to them following the advice of the young men. He said, “My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your burden. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the officers of the Israelites came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Exodus 5:17

But he said, “You are slackers! Slackers! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.’

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

Ezekiel 16:4

As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you. You were not rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.