Exodus 5:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.’

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

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.”

Exodus 5:7

“You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5:9

Let heavier work be laid on them; then they will pay attention to it and not to deceptive words.”