Exodus 5:16

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"No straw is given to your servants, yet we are told, 'Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people."

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  • Exod 5:4-15
    12 verses
    86%

    4But the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their labor? Get back to your work."

    5And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working!"

    6That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people:

    7"You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.

    8But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.'

    9Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies."

    10So the slave drivers and overseers went out and said to the people, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you any straw.'

    11"Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all."

    12So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

    13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, "Complete the work required of you each day, just as when you had straw."

    14And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, "Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?"

    15Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?"

  • Exod 5:17-21
    5 verses
    85%

    17Pharaoh said, "Lazy! That’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.'

    18"Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks."

    19The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, "You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you each day."

    20When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,

    21They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Exod 14:5
    74%

    5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the Israelites. They said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and lost their services!”

  • Exod 1:11-14
    4 verses
    74%

    11So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses.

    12Yet, the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

    13The Egyptians forced the Israelites to work as slaves.

    14They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

  • Deut 26:6
    73%

    6But the Egyptians mistreated us, oppressed us, and subjected us to harsh labor.

  • Exod 6:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh slavery.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 5:23
    72%

    23Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and you have not rescued your people at all."

  • Num 20:15
    72%

    15Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Lam 5:8
    72%

    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

  • Lam 5:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Neh 5:5
    70%

    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

  • Exod 17:3
    70%

    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Exod 9:17
    70%

    17You still set yourself against my people and refuse to let them go.

  • Gen 44:7
    70%

    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

  • Exod 10:3
    69%

    3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.'