Exodus 5:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11

Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

Exodus 5:17

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

Exodus 5:19

The Israelite supervisors saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not lessen your daily number of bricks.”

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.