Exodus 5:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Increase the work for the men, so that they attend to it and not to deceitful words.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

Do you think mere words substitute for strategy and might in war? In whom, then, do you place your trust, that you rebel against me?

Job 16:3

Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on?

Exodus 5:10

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and told the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not provide you with straw.

Exodus 5:8

Yet you shall levy upon them the same quota of bricks as they made previously. Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah, son of Hoshaiah, Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the others had the insolence to say to Jeremiah: “You lie; the Lord, our God, did not send you to tell us, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there.’

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors? Then they repented and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.” First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what do we gain by observing God’s requirements, And by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.