Exodus 5:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Cross References

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, “Why this waste?

Exodus 5:8

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Exodus 5:16

No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! But the fault is with you.”

Exodus 5:18

Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”