Exodus 5:18

New International Reader's Version

Now get to work. We won’t give you any straw. But you still have to make the same number of bricks.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11

My father put a heavy load on your shoulders. But I’ll make it even heavier. My father beat you with whips. But I’ll beat you with bigger whips.’ ”

Exodus 5:17

Pharaoh said, “You are lazy! That’s why you keep saying, ‘Let us go. We want to offer sacrifices to the Lord.’

Exodus 5:19

The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble. They knew it when they were told, “Don’t reduce the number of bricks you are required to make each day.”

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked and saw how much people were suffering on this earth. I saw the tears of those who are suffering. They don’t have anyone to comfort them. Power is on the side of those who treat them badly. Those who are suffering don’t have anyone to comfort them.

Ezekiel 18:18

But his father will die because of his own sin. He got rich by cheating others. He robbed his relatives. He also did what was wrong among his people.