Exodus 5:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

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    4And 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.

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

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

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

    8But 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.

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

    10And 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.

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

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

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

    14And 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?

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

    16They 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.

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

    18Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:

    21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

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    11So 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.

    12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

    13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

    14And 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.

  • Exod 6:9
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    9And 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.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

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    6And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke: