Exodus 5:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let more work be laid upon the men, so they may labor in it; and let them not regard lying words.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:20 : 20 You say (but they are only vain words) I have counsel and strength for war. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?
  • Jer 43:2 : 2 Then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God has not sent you to say, Do not go into Egypt to live there:
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

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  • Exod 5:4-8
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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? Go back to your burdens.

    5 And Pharaoh said, Look, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.

    6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

    7 You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as before: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

    8 And the quota of bricks, which they made before, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish anything from it: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

  • Exod 5:10-19
    10 verses
    83%

    10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says, I will not give you straw.

    11 Go, get straw where you can find it: yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.

    12 So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

    13 And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your work, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

    14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and questioned, Why have you not fulfilled your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?

    15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal this way with your servants?

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

    17 But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

    18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.

    19 And the officers of the children of Israel realized they were in trouble when it was said, You shall not diminish anything from your bricks of your daily task.

  • Exod 1:10-14
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    10 Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.

    11 Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

    12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor:

    14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, which they made them serve, was with rigor.

  • Exod 36:5-6
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    5 And they spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to be done."

    6 And Moses gave the command, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.

  • Exod 20:9
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    9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15 Moreover there are workmen with you in abundance, stone cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of skillful men for every kind of work.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5
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    5 And let them deliver it into the hand of those who do the work, who have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to those who do the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

  • Hab 2:13
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    13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?

  • Exod 10:11
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    11 Not so; go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

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    1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

    2 For if you refuse to let them go, and continue to hold them,

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    13 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:

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    3 And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and tar they had for mortar.

  • Exod 6:9-10
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    9 And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they did not listen to Moses because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.

    10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Neh 6:9
    68%

    9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened from the work, so that it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

  • Exod 9:13
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    13 And the LORD said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.