Exodus 5:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:3

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

1 Kings 12:14

he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you deal thus with your servants?

Exodus 5:17

But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Ezekiel 16:4

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel string was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor swathed with bands.