Exodus 5:19

Tree of Life Version

So the foremen of Bnei-Yisrael saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You are not to reduce the number of bricks from day to day.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Though the profit of the land is taken by all, a king is served by the fields.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I looked and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter. Power is in the hand of their oppressors, but they had no comforter.

Deuteronomy 32:36

For Adonai will judge His people— for His servants, He will relent when He sees that strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

Exodus 5:8

But impose on them the quota of bricks that they made previously; don’t reduce it. For they are lazy—that’s why they cry out saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Exodus 5:18

So go now and work! No straw will be given to you—but you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

Exodus 5:20

Then they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them as they came from Pharaoh.