Exodus 5:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Exodus 5:18

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

Exodus 5:20

As they left Pharaoh, they came upon Moses and Aaron, who were waiting to meet them.

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.’

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Deuteronomy 32:36

Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.