Exodus 5:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ You won’t give us any straw, but you tell us to make as many bricks as before. And now our masters are beating us. Your people are wrong for doing this.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ No straw is supplied to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look at how your servants are being beaten! Your own people are to blame!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Straw is not given to us, and yet the same amount of bricks is commanded. So we, your servants, are cut up by scourging, and injustice is done against your people."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before. Behold, we thy servants are beaten with whips; and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.

Exodus 5:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 11:3

The people said, “We should make bricks and put them in fire so that they will become very hard.” So the people used bricks, not stones, to build their houses. And the people used tar, [66] not mortar. [67]

1 Kings 12:14

He did what his friends told him to do. Rehoboam said, “My father forced you to work hard. So I will give you even more work. My father used whips to force you to work. I will beat you with whips that have sharp pieces of metal in them [151] to cut you!”

Exodus 5:15

Then the Hebrew [47] foremen went to Pharaoh. They complained and said, “We are your servants. Why are you treating us like this?

Exodus 5:17

Pharaoh answered, “You are lazy. You don’t want to work. That is why you ask me to let you go. And that is why you want to leave here and make sacrifices [48] to the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw that many people are treated badly. I saw their tears. And I saw that there was no one to comfort those sad people. I saw cruel people had all the power. And I saw that there was no one to comfort the people they hurt.

Ezekiel 16:4

People only throw that wood into the fire. Some sticks begin to burn on the ends, the middles turn black from the fire, \{but the sticks don’t burn completely\}. Can you make anything from that burnt stick?