They said to one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.
Exodus 5:7 - Tree of Life Version “You are not to give the people any more straw to make bricks, as before. Let them 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 one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.
She also said to him, “There’s both straw and plenty of feed with us, as well as room to spend the night.”
Then on the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters of the people and their foremen saying,
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.’
Nevertheless, there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your handmaid, and the young man that is with your servants—there is no lack of anything.”