They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.)
Exodus 5:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall no more give the people straw to make brick; let them go and gather straw for themselves. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. Common English Bible “Don’t supply the people with the straw they need to make bricks like you did before. Let them go out and gather the straw for themselves. Catholic Public Domain Version "You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw. |
They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.’ (They used brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.)
She also said to him, ‘We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.’
That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen,
But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy #– #that is why they are crying out, “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”
although there’s straw and feed for the donkeys, and I have bread and wine for me, my concubine, and the servant with us. There is nothing we lack.’