Exodus 5:8

Modern English Version

However, the quota of the bricks, which they were making previously, you shall lay upon them. You shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their labor. They built for Pharaoh storage cities: Pithom and Rameses.

Exodus 5:17

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

Exodus 5:19

The officers of the Israelites saw that they were in trouble, after it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your bricks of your daily task.”

Exodus 5:7

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

Exodus 5:9

Let there be more work laid upon the men so that they may labor therein, and let them not regard deceptive words.”