Exodus 5:9

New Century Version

Make these people work harder and keep them busy; then they will not have time to listen to the lies of Moses.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

You say you have battle plans and power for war, but your words mean nothing. Whom are you trusting for help so that you turn against me?

Job 16:3

Will your long-winded speeches never end? What makes you keep on arguing?

Exodus 5:10

So the slave masters and foremen went to the Israelites and said, “This is what the king says: I will no longer give you straw.

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.’

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and some other men were too proud. They said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there.’

Zechariah 1:6

I commanded my words and laws to my servants the prophets, and they preached to your ancestors, who returned to me. They said, ‘The Lord All-Powerful did as he said he would. He punished us for the way we lived and for what we did.’ ”

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. It did no good to obey his laws and to show the Lord All-Powerful that we were sorry for what we did.

Ephesians 5:6

Do not let anyone fool you by telling you things that are not true, because these things will bring God’s anger on those who do not obey him.