Exodus 5:8

Tree of Life Version

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.’

Cross References

Psalm 106:41

He handed them to the nations— those who hated them ruled over them.

Exodus 1:11

So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:17

But he said, “Lazy! You’re lazy! That’s why you were saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Adonai.’

Exodus 5:19

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.”

Exodus 5:7

“You are not to give the people any more straw to make bricks, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5:9

Let even heavier work be laid upon the men, so that they must labor, paying no attention to deceptive words.”