Exodus 5:17

New Century Version

The king answered, “You are lazy! You don’t want to work! That is why you ask to leave here and make sacrifices to the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 5:16

You give us no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people’s fault.”

Exodus 5:18

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

Exodus 5:8

But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. Do not accept fewer. They have become lazy, and that is why they are asking me, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifices to our God.’

Matthew 26:8

His followers were upset when they saw the woman do this. They asked, “Why waste that perfume?

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power.”