Exodus 5:18
So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
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- Ezek 18:18 : 18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
- Dan 2:9-9 : 9 If you don’t inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence that you can disclose its interpretation.” 10 The wise men replied to the king,“There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man. 11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods– but they don’t live among mortals!” 12 Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about to be executed. They also sought Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.
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- Exod 5:4-1714 verses88%
4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”
5Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”
6That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:
7“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.
8But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’
9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
10So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.
11You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”
12So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”
14The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”
15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”
17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”
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19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”
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3Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
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13You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,
- Exod 1:13-142 verses70%
13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
14They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
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2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,
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9For six days you may labor and do all your work,
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11No! Go, you men only, and serve the LORD, for that is what you want.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.
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5While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
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11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- 2 Kgs 22:5-62 verses69%
5Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,
6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
- Exod 6:9-113 verses69%
9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
10Then the LORD said to Moses,
11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”
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14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
- 1 Chr 22:15-162 verses69%
15You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled
16in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Get up and begin the work! May the LORD be with you!”
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6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
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22Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the LORD, as I commanded your ancestors.
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17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
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7So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’