Exodus 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

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  • Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.
  • Dan 2:9-9 : 9 That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear. 10 Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean. 11 The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh. 12 Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.

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  • Exod 5:4-17
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    4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

    5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

    6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,

    7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

    8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

    9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

    10 And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

    11 Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

    12 So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

    13 And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

    14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

    15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

    16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

    17 But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

  • 19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

  • 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

  • 13 On six days do all your work:

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

    14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

  • 2 For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

  • 9 On six days do all your work:

  • 11 Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.

  • 5 Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

  • 11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
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    5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

    6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • Exod 6:9-11
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    9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

    11 Go in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to let the children of Israel go out of his land.

  • 14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

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    15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

    16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

  • 6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

  • 22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

  • 17 Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

  • 7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.